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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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