William Shakespeare Quotes About Ambition
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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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When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
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But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.
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Pride went before, ambition follows him.
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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
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Flesh and blood, You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian- Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong- Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art.
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Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
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Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.
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Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
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As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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Ambition's debt is paid.
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side
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Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
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