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11.
Ambition deadly tyrant
First Line:
Ambition deadly tyrant
Last Line:
For gilded domes and greatness
Author:
David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:
28413
12.
Ambition is a lust that's never quenched
First Line:
Ambition is a lust that's never quenched
Last Line:
Grows more enflamed and madder by enjoyment
DMI number:
14185
13.
Ambition is an idol on whose wings
First Line:
Ambition is an idol on whose wings
Last Line:
To be sublimely great or to be nothing
DMI number:
14189
14.
Ambition is at distance
First Line:
Ambition is at distance
Last Line:
What storms will batter and what tempests shake us
DMI number:
14179
15.
Ambition like a torrent never looks back
First Line:
Ambition like a torrent never looks back
Last Line:
And offers violence to nature's self
DMI number:
14191
16.
Ambition the desire of active souls
First Line:
Ambition the desire of active souls
Last Line:
And elevates the hero to the gods
DMI number:
14180
17.
Ambition the disease of virtue bred
First Line:
Ambition the disease of virtue bred
Last Line:
Meets death in that which is the means of life
DMI number:
14190
18.
Ambition's like a circle on the water
First Line:
Ambition's like a circle on the water
Last Line:
Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought
DMI number:
14184
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Ambition's never safe till power be past
First Line:
Ambition's never safe till power be past
Last Line:
As men till impotent are seldom chaste
DMI number:
14182
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As at Troy
First Line:
As at Troy
Last Line:
More than the loss of life or victory
DMI number:
14253
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