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    But what will not ambition and revenge
    Descend to? who aspires must down as low
    As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last
    To basest things.

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Big results require big ambitions.

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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

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On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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If at great things thou would'st arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,
Not difficult, read more

If at great things thou would'st arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,
Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;
Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,
They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,
While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

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Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to read more

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

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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.]

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