ambition

• "stars, hide your fires, let not light see my deep and dark desire"
• "thou wouldst be great,/ art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it"
• "i have no spur/ to prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition"
• "to be safely thus"
• "we have scorched the snake not killed it"
• "there the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled hath nature that in time will venom breed"
• "give to th'edge o'the'sword his wife, his babes and all"
• "upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my gripe"