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

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I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]

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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

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

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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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There is no excellency without difficulty.

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All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

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Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

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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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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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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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There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

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Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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There is always a best way of doing everything.

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Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.

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