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Letter "A" » ambitious
«The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.»
Author: Fisher Ames
| About:
Ambition,
Choice,
Democracy,
Freedom,
Government,
Ignorance,
Liberty
| Keywords:
ambitious, licentiousness, propensities, propensity
«Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ambitious, conceived, console, discourage, mediocre, pocket
«The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall»
Author: Thomas Adams
| Keywords:
ambitious, climb down, come down, down the stairs, perilous, stairs, swallowed
«The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.»
«Now see, a lot of critics are saying Arnold can't get elected because he's just an ambitious guy with a famous name, who doesn't know anything about running the government. Didn't hurt George Bush.»
«PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ambitious, beg, Beg to, combustible, dictionary, Dr., Dr. Johnson, Dr, Dr Johnson, enlightened, famous, illuminate, inferior, Johnson, last name, last resort, resort, respect to, rubbish, scoundrel, submit, The Last Resort, torch, With all due respect
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alarmed, alarming, ambitious, at rest, authors, betters, clock, dormitory, dreariest, dreary, dumped, dumping, dumps, envy, eternal rest, fame, Higher Ground, High Hopes, meeting place, oblivion, Pride and, storage, struggling, The Alarm, The State, wicked
«Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry,
Progress
| Keywords:
ambitious, instinctive, meeting place
«The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.»
«Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,Amid the rustle of his planted hills,Life overflows without ambitious pains;And rains down life until the basin spills,And mounts more dizzy high the more it rainsAs though to choose whatever shape it wills. . . .»
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