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«No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction»
Author: Charles Kendall Adams
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Success
| Keywords:
attains, determines, distinction, eminent, excellence, required
«It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.»
Author: William Godwin
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eminent, inspire, juvenile, juveniles, probable, regulated, sufficiently
«Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Justice,
Politics
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civil, Civil society, departure, departures, eminent, No Policy, policy, suspicion
«MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Chancellors, eminent, majesty, Orders of, potentate, The Imperial
«MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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advancement, condense, condensed, definitions, eminent, foregoes, foregoing, foregone, Great White, The Magnet
«Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.»
«The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.»
«Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.»
«It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Persecution
| Keywords:
censure, eminent, fiery, illustrious, persecution
«The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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all ages, eminent, gravity, imbecility
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