Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Ambition

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  • Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

    Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.40
  • Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

  • Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

  • In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

    Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.140
  • An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

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