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21.
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
22.
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
23.
Ambition is at distance
First Line:
Ambition is at distance
Last Line:
What storms will batter and what tempests shake us
DMI number:
14179
24.
Ambition is the dropsy of the soul
First Line:
Ambition is the dropsy of the soul
Last Line:
How then should souls allied to sense resist it
DMI number:
14183
25.
Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven
First Line:
Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven
Last Line:
Conducts the sun and regulates the spheres
Author:
Samuel Johnson (Absolute)
DMI number:
37441
26.
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
27.
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
28.
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
29.
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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