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When ambition ends, happiness begins.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, read more
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
We grow small trying to be great.
We grow small trying to be great.
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm
heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat., read more
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm
heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est:
Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
