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21.
Ambition first sprang from the blessed abodes
First Line:
Ambition first sprang from the blessed abodes
Last Line:
And close confined in their own palace sleep
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
1357
22.
Ambition hath but two steps the lowest
First Line:
Ambition hath but two steps the lowest
Last Line:
Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens
Author:
John Lyly (Absolute)
DMI number:
13443
23.
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
24.
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
25.
Ambition is at distance
First Line:
Ambition is at distance
Last Line:
What storms will batter and what tempests shake us
DMI number:
14179
26.
Ambition is like love impatient
First Line:
Ambition is like love impatient
Last Line:
Both of delays and rivals
DMI number:
39174
27.
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
28.
Ambition is the saint to which you pray
First Line:
Ambition is the saint to which you pray
Last Line:
So may they fare that with ambition swell
DMI number:
44396
29.
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
30.
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
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