"If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize."
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"If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people."
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"Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place."
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"Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition."
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"There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation."
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"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox."
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"It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils."
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"Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring."
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"Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?"
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"Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her."
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"Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further."
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"I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope."
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"I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear."
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