Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
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A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aide may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment.
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
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Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her tra
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
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No bounds his head long, vast ambition knows.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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'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.
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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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Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.
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Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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Ah! Curst ambition! To thy lures we o
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