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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Big results require big ambitions.
Big results require big ambitions.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
We grow small trying to be great.
We grow small trying to be great.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
