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131. Ambition is an idol on whose wings

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Ambition is an idol on whose wings
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To be sublimely great or to be nothing
DMI number:
14189

132. Ambition is at distance

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Ambition is at distance
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What storms will batter and what tempests shake us
DMI number:
14179

133. Ambition like a torrent never looks back

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Ambition like a torrent never looks back
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And offers violence to nature's self
DMI number:
14191

134. Ambition the desire of active souls

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Ambition the desire of active souls
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And elevates the hero to the gods
DMI number:
14180

135. Ambition the disease of virtue bred

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Ambition the disease of virtue bred
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Meets death in that which is the means of life
DMI number:
14190

136. Ambition's like a circle on the water

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Ambition's like a circle on the water
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Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought
DMI number:
14184

137. Ambition's never safe till power be past

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Ambition's never safe till power be past
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As men till impotent are seldom chaste
DMI number:
14182

138. Ambition's never safe till power be past

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Ambition's never safe till power be past
Last Line:
As men till impotent were seldom chaste
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5528

139. Aminta fear not to confess

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Aminta fear not to confess
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Than the dear secret's kept unknown
Author:
Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:
2859

140. As pirates all false colours wear

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As pirates all false colours wear
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Leaves art to polish and refine
Author:
Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:
5546