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Synonyms: ambition; ambitiousness; aspiration; dream

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  1.  National ambitions; being a critical study of the European desire for progress / Bailey, J. R. A
    Bailey, J. R. A National ambitions; being a critical study of the European desire for progress Blackwell Progress ...  details...
  2.  Tamerlane / Poe, Edgar Allen
    My spirit struggled with, and strove, When, on the mountain peak, alone, Ambition lent it a new ... ambition is chained down- And crouches to a keeper's hand- Not so in deserts where the grand  details...
  3.  The Landscape Garden / Poe, Edgar Allen
    principle was the love of woman. His third was the contempt of ambition. His fourth was an object ... of his which I have already mentioned- the idea, that in the contempt of ambition lay one of the essential principles  details...
  4.  REALLY NATURALIZING VIRTUE / STEPHEN BROWN
    , in examining the theory we are led to a more modest understanding of what the ambitions of this kind of ethical ...  details...
  5.  Ode On Indolence / Keats, John
    Maid, and Love her name; The second was Ambition, pale of cheek, And ever ... ? And for that poor Ambition! it springs From a man's little heart's short fever-fit; For Poesy!- no  details...
  6.  Prose quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: with indexes. Authors, 544; subjects, 571; quotations, 8810. / Allibone, Samuel Austin, 1816-1889
    . Considering the usual motives of human ac- tions, which are pleasure, profit, and ambition, I cannot yet ... : Lacon. In the struggles of ambition, in violent com- petitions for power or for glory, how slender  details...
  7.  To Helen / Poe, Edgar Allen
    of pride! How daring an ambition; yet how deep- How fathomless a capacity for love! But now ...  details...
  8.  The European Anarchy / Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 1862-1932
    "--New Ambitions. 9. OPINION ABOUT GERMANY Bourdon--Beyens--Cambon--Summary 10. GERMAN POLICY ... . To any State of Europe that has conceived the ambition to dominate the Continent this policy of England  details...
  9.  Of The Liberty Of The Press / Hume, David
    of the people must frequently be rouzed, in order to curb the ambition of the court; and the dread of rouzing this spirit must be employed to prevent that ambition. Nothing so effectual ...  details...
  10.  The Broken Heart / Irving, Washington
    that it withers down many a lovely woman into an early grave. Man is the creature of interest and ambition ... of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice  details...

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