William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Ambition

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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations”, p.989

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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Heart

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4236, Delphi Classics

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Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.
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Love

William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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