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An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Ambition, Progress, Aim

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Ambition, Keys, Voice

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Ambition, Ambitious, Kingdoms

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Love, Ambition, Successful
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.140

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Heart, Ambition, Division
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.40

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