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