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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most read more
Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light.
I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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.
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
