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• Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Girl, Uncles, Aunt

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• Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

  Arthur Helps

  Art, Business, Character

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• God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Perfect, Might, Conformity

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.35, Hackett Publishing

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• We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Judging, Veins, Ears

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• Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  People, Economy, Betray

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• Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.

  Richard M. Weaver

  School, Our World, Greek

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.167, University of Chicago Press

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• Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

  Saadi

  Dog, Grateful, Men

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.166, Innovations and Information

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• Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Useless, Firsts

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• If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blood, Europe, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1476, Delphi Classics

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• There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Virtue, Capacity, Ready

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2421, Delphi Classics

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• What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Army, Common Sense, Navy

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.13, Yale University Press

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• Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Eye, Design

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• There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

  Perry Brass

  Life, Happiness, Jobs

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.29, Perry Brass

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• It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Christian, Earth

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• We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Joy, Mind, Suffering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege of the passions alone to bring them to light, and to direct us sometimes to surer and more excellent aims than conscious effort could.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Passion, Light, Effort

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• What excellent fools religion makes of men.

  Ben Jonson

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Ben Jonson, Johanna Procter (1989). “The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 1: Sejanus, Volpone, Epicoene Or the Silent Woman”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

  Pat Summitt

  Jobs, Average, Excellent Work

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.193, Crown Business

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• I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

  Jack Kirby

  Curriculum, Students, Be Good

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were no undesirable flight characteristics. The directional stability was excellent and, properly trimmed, the B-17 could be taken off, landed and banked without change of trim.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Taken, Aviation, Flight

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• A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

  Maimonides

  Food, Wine, Glasses

  Moses Maimonides, Jacob Israel Dienstag (1994). “Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma”

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• I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

  Laurie Anderson

  Taste, Audience

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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• The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Way, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

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• When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Religious, Suffering

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• God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.

  Charles Stanley

  Faith, Religious, Prayer

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