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“Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.”

Knows Mind Hands Form Ocean Ambition Wings Storm Fierce Lightning

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem

“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.”

Mind Ambition Wings Extremes Idols My Ambition Great Minds Great Ambition

Author:Shakti Gawain

“The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.”

World Believe Form Goal Space Feet Planets Development Moon Ambition Red Wings Wheels Reaching Mars Belts Transportation Another World Permanence Solar System Asteroids Deep Space

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.”

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.”

Sun Ambition Wings Golden Soar

Book:The Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Works of William Shakspeare

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

“Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.”

People Dream Brother Ambition Built Wings Myth Noble Uplifting Greek Tragic Heroic American Dream Flew Comical Icarus Greek Myth Wright Brothers

Author:John C. Wright

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

Knows Science Knowledge Sun Ambition Wings Myth Pursuit Greek Ambitious Pursuit Of Knowledge Icarus Greek Myth

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.”

Action Ambition And Love Wings

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”