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Ambition
«Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.»
Author: John Webster
(Playwright, Writer)
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ambition, blood, cut, diamonds, diamond dust, dust, lust, lusted, lusting, lust after, our own, The Diamond, The Diamonds
«To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?»
«Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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Ambition,
Appearance
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cover, enterprises, incurable, incurables, inflexible
«Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.»
«When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.»
«We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
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assert, great power, preferred
«Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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Ambition
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fallen, fall short, purposes
«Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Ambition
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Other side, The other side, The Vault, vaulted, vaulting, vaults