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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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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
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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 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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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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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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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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