#surpass

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky. ↗

— Tycho Brahe

#any #been #before #brilliancy #clear

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#does #dying #itself #life #living

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#hard #more #nothing #strong #submissive

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#certainly #did #happen #i #milestones

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#despise #either #must #people #supervise

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#could #i #indeed #knew #literature

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#himself #i #interesting #know #life

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. ↗

— Maimonides

#cannot #degree #distance #each #every