'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.
Shakespeare, William
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Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad
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Vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself.
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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