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Ambition Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
- 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.…
- The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of…
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every…
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
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