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Such joy ambition finds.

Such joy ambition finds.

John Milton
Ambition, Joy
1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

John Milton
Morning, Ambition, Men
'Paradise Regained' (1671) bk. 4, l. 220

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

John Milton
Fall, Ambition, Joy
1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

John Milton
Crazy, Ambition, Mad
'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

John Milton
Ambition, Hands, Treasure
John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

John Milton
Ambition, Deeds, Doers
John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.242

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