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Ambitious Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy…
- As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
- The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
- I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which…
- I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,…
- Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here…
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- Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. — Ambrose Bierce
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- It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. — Louisa May Alcott