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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Ambition |
| Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy. Gray.—Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 8. | 1 |
| They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them; And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. Shakespeare.—King Richard III., Act I. Scene 3. (Queen Margaret to Gloster.) | 2 |
| The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. Rollin.—Ancient History, Book VI. Chap. II. | 3 |
| I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself, And falls on the other. Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act I. Scene 7. | 4 |
| Wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune’s ice prefers to virtue’s land. Dryden.—Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. Line 196. | 5 |
| When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Antony to the Citizens.) | 6 |
| Fling away ambition; By that sin fell the angels. Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act III. Scene 2. (Wolsey to Cromwell.) | 7 |
| A hop and skip shall raise the son of a cobbler, well underlaid with pieces, to the government of a prince, till overmuch ambitious cutting wears him to his last. Nabbes.—Microcosmus, Act II. | 8 |
| From servants hasting to be gods. Pollok.—The Course of Time, Book II. | 9 |
| All my ambition is, I own, To profit and to please unknown; Like streams supplied from springs below, Which scatter blessings as they go. Cotton.—To the Reader. | 10 |
| Then should misery’s sons and daughters In their lowly dwellings sing; Bounteous as the Nile’s dark waters, Undiscover’d as its spring, I would scatter o’er the land Blessings with a secret hand. James Montgomery.—The Lyre, Ver. 7. | 11 |
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