Excellencies Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such…
— Joseph Addison
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
— Joseph Addison
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The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings…
— Chanakya
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among…
— James Boswell
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Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge - a challenge which…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity
— Matt Chandler
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The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may…
— Rene Descartes
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Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is more of His goodness, in…
— Thomas Boston
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I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which…
— Helen Keller
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be…
— Adam Clarke
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those…
— John Dryden
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Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.
— Samuel Prout
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One of the commonest causes of failure in Christian life is found in the attempt to follow some good man whom we greatly admire. No…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at…
— Joseph P. Bradley
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A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
— James Boswell
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The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations
— Rene Descartes
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The excellencies of Men, is an epilepsy in the Presence of The most Excellency (GOD).
— CosmosO Ugonna
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Marriage is not a union, merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect…
— Frederick W Robertson
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Rare qualities may sometimes be prerogatives without being advantages; and though a needless ostentation of ones excellencies may be more glorious, a modest concealment of…
— Robert Boyle
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