Alexander Pope Quotes About Ambition
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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