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Ambition Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
- Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than…
- Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,…
- Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
- Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
- The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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