Eminence Quotes

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Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self,… — Mitt Romney
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. — Jonathan Swift
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of… — William Ellery Channing
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be… — Moderata Fonte
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of… — Irvin D. Yalom
If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of congress, and… — Eugene V. Debs
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the… — Orson F. Whitney
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot… — Igor Stravinsky
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up… — King George V
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically… — James Fenton
Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There… — George Bernard Shaw
It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of… — Sydney Smith
It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends — Samuel Johnson
What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science — Thomas Carlyle
If there be one God subsisting in three persons, then let us give equal reverence to all the persons in the Trinity. There is not… — Thomas Watson

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