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

  Robert Southey
  British writer 1774-1843
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. sublimely
2. carried
3. extreme
4. nothing
5. minds

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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. by : Robert Southey

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