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Nathaniel Parker Willis on Ambition

1806–1867 United States

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How like a mounting devil in the heart
Rules the unreined ambition!

And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

a poem delivered at the Departure of the Senior Class of Yale College (1827)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nathaniel Parker Willis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.