Alexander Pope Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

  Alexander Pope

  Ambition, Angel, Firsts

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 13

• Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Kings, Ambition

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 1

• Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

  Alexander Pope

  Angel, Ambition, Men

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 125

• Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

  Alexander Pope

  Laughter, Ambition, Son

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1757). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.134

• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Ocean, Ambition, Hands

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.21

• But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

  Alexander Pope

  Ambition, Lost, Crosses

• I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

  Alexander Pope

  Ambition, People, Emptiness

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.73

• The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

  Alexander Pope

  Leadership, Ambition, Sea

  Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.15

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