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What Is Ambition? 'Tis A Glorious Cheat. Angels Of Light Walk Not So Dazzlingly The Sapphire Walls Of Heaven.
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What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not
so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven.
-- Willis
Related:
Ambition: The glorious frailty of the noble mind. -- Hoole
He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw
but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night....
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow....
Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off
And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind....
If you cheat a game, what is the point??
What a glorious way of spending an evening!
It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old.
-- Edmund H. Sears (1810-1876) -- The Angels' Song...
The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 14...
Ahhhh, it's amazing what a cheat can do!!