QUOTE A DAY - August 29, 2017
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*---- Quotes For The Day ----*
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
--Carl Sagan
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
--Edgar Bergen (Charlie McCarthy)
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
--James M. Barrie
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
See at the bottom for the answer
*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Virtue is choked with foul ambition.
--William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
--Francois De La Rochefoucauld
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
ANSWER: Niccolo Machiavelli
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