#excellent

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ↗

— John Lubbock

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Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#best #do-the-best #excel #excellence #excellent

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. ↗

— James A. Michener

#good #good writer #i #very #writer

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#conviction #excellent #into #itself #never

Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish! ↗

— David Zucker

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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ↗

— Epictetus

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ↗

— Voltaire

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