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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

Edmund Burke
Revenge, Ambition, Pride
Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.161

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

Edmund Burke
Christian, Ambition, Rainbow

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke
Business, Ambition, Creeps
'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Edmund Burke
Ambition, Vanity, Sin

I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

Edmund Burke
Ambition, Thinking, Abuse
Edmund Burke's remarks on the policy of the allies, as quoted in "The Works of Edmund Burke", 1839.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Edmund Burke
Ambition, Power, May
Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.116

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Edmund Burke
Ambition, Shining, Doe
Edmund Burke (1756). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies”, p.233

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