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back home with thee! It was in my mind to raise thee to high honours, but this Lord of thine has thwarted thee of thy ambition. (Numbers 24, 11)
Thou knowest, who knowest all things, that if I refused proud Aman yonder my greeting, it was no pride of mine, no scorn, no ambition of mine that moved me. (Esther 13, 12)
All that I was, is gone, the ambition, the happiness that was mine swept away like clouds before the storm; (Job 30, 15)
The people, seeing him so loyal a lover of his country’s renown, made him their ruler and high priest; no less was due to such exploits, public service so faithfully done, such constant ambition for his people’s honour. (1 Maccabees 14, 35)
But higher still his ambition ran; he would make himself master of the whole country; murder he plotted for Simon and his sons together. (1 Maccabees 16, 13)
What glory their fathers had handed down to them! And fame such as the Greeks covet was all their ambition now. (2 Maccabees 4, 15)
Wouldst thou defile thy whole nature through the tongue’s fault? Wouldst thou find thyself saying, with God’s angel to hear thee, No thought I gave to it?✻ Little wonder if God disappoints every ambition of the man who speaks so. (Ecclesiastes 5, 5)
Or if wide knowledge be thy ambition, she can inform thee of what is past, make conjecture of the future; she is versed in the subtleties of debate, in the reading of all riddles; marvels and portents she can foretell, and what events time or season will bring. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 8)
O heart of dust, O ambition worthless as the sand, life than his own clay more despicable! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
Deep as a river flowed thy wisdom; thy ambition it was to lay bare all the secrets of earth; (Ecclesiasticus 47, 16)
Wait we, till the Lord has carried out all his designs upon mount Sion and Jerusalem. Then he means to reckon with the boastful ambition of Sennacherib, with the proud glance of those scornful eyes. (Isaiah 10, 12)
to that end, at home or in exile, our ambition is to win his favour. (2 Corinthians 5, 9)
