William Shakespeare Quotes, Issues Quotes, Excellence Quotes

Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.

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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

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I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

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If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

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Intensity is the price of excellence.

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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

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There is always a best way of doing everything.

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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

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There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

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There is no excellency without difficulty.

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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

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All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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