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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

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The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

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Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

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It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

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Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

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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 and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

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Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.

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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

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Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

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