Quote#Success & Failure
Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the…
Quote byWilliam Gilmore Simms · 1806–1870
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Egeria, p. 74.
English (original)
Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.
— William Gilmore Simms
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