Ambition Quote by William Gilmore Simms

“There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.”

William Gilmore Simms

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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

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I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

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