Famous Quotes a175-a177

a175: Ambition is an idol, on whose wings
Great minds are carried only to extreme;
To be sublimely great or t be nothing.
- Southey.

a176: O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird,
How dost thou from the field of honesty
Pick every grain of profit or delight
And mock the reaper's toil!
- Havard.

a177: What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat.
Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly
The sapphire walls of heaven.
- Willis.