<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536369" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ambition</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had ambition once. Like Solomon<br>I asked for wisdom, deeming wisdom fair,<br>And with much pains a little knowledge won<br>Of Nature's cruelty and Man's despair,<br>And mostly learned how vain such learnings were.<br>Then in my grief I turned to happiness,<br>And woman's love awhile was all my care,<br>And I achieved some sorrow and some bliss,<br>Till love rebelled. Then the mad lust of power<br>Became my dream, to rule my fellow--men;<br>And I too lorded it my little hour,<br>And wrought for weal or woe with sword and pen,<br>And wounded many, some, alas, my friends.<br>Now I ask silence. My ambition ends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536369" data-title="Ambition de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="I had ambition once. Like Solomon I asked for wisdom, deeming wisdom fair, And with much pains a little knowledge won Of Nature's cruelty and Man's despair, And mostly learned how vain such learnings were. Then in my grief I turned to happiness, A..."></div> </div> </div>

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