Exceeding Quotes

72 quotes by 67 authors

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States… — William Whipple
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one… — Vannevar Bush
If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity… — Du Mu
Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any… — Abraham Lincoln
Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the… — Isaac Newton
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding… — Michel de Montaigne
The Formless Supreme Being abides in the Realm of Eternity. Over His creation He casts His glance of grace. In that Realm are contained all… — Guru Nanak
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have… — Galileo Galilei
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it. — William Hazlitt
Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is… — Delphine de Girardin
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations. — Jane Pauley
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. — M. Scott Peck
In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place. — Helen Rowland
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. — Euripides
The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become. — Wallace Stevens
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and… — John Owen

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