A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Ambition: Quotations from Burning Words

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.— H. W. BEECHER
Virtue is choked with foul ambition.— SHAKSPEARE
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.— THOMAS BROOKS
Ambition is but avarice on stilts.— W. S. LANDOR
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