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21. Ambition is a lust that's never quenched

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Ambition is a lust that's never quenched
Last Line:
Grows more enflamed and madder by enjoyment
DMI number:
14185

22. Ambition is an idol on whose wings

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Ambition is an idol on whose wings
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To be sublimely great or to be nothing
DMI number:
14189

23. Ambition is at distance

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Ambition is at distance
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What storms will batter and what tempests shake us
DMI number:
14179

24. Ambition is the dropsy of the soul

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Ambition is the dropsy of the soul
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How then should souls allied to sense resist it
DMI number:
14183

25. Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven

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Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven
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Conducts the sun and regulates the spheres
Author:
Samuel Johnson (Absolute)
DMI number:
37441

26. Ambition like a torrent never looks back

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Ambition like a torrent never looks back
Last Line:
And offers violence to nature's self
DMI number:
14191

27. Ambition the desire of active souls

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Ambition the desire of active souls
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And elevates the hero to the gods
DMI number:
14180

28. Ambition the disease of virtue bred

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Ambition the disease of virtue bred
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Meets death in that which is the means of life
DMI number:
14190

29. Ambition's like a circle on the water

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Ambition's like a circle on the water
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Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought
DMI number:
14184

30. Ambition's never safe till power be past

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Ambition's never safe till power be past
Last Line:
As men till impotent are seldom chaste
DMI number:
14182