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Letter "A" » ambition
«Five enemies of peace inhabit with us / avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.»
Author: Francesco Petrarch
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Humanist,
Poet,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
ambition,
avarice,
banished,
banishes,
banishing,
envy,
infallibly,
inhabit,
perpetual
«Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven»
«I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.»
«He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes»
«It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.»
«In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
acquire,
adept,
ambition,
get rid of,
literary,
literature,
novice,
novices,
rid,
rid of,
struggle,
The Novice
«For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry-great. To have hopes, dreams-great.»
Author: Johnny Depp
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Actor)
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Keywords:
ambition,
dirtier,
dirtiest,
dirty,
hopes,
hunger,
hungered,
hungering,
hungers,
hungry,
prefer
«Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(
Novelist)
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Keywords:
ambition,
avarice,
cruelty,
fluid,
fluids,
founded,
lends,
lust,
lust after,
nervous,
revenge,
supports
«Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(
Emperor,
General,
Politician)
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Keywords:
Acts,
ambition,
depends,
direct,
endowed,
endowing,
endows,
passion,
perform,
principals,
The Passion,
well endowed,
with ambition
«Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.»