Eminence Quotes - Page 2

• As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.

  Thomas Paine

  Family, Running, Children

  Thomas Paine (2006). “Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Greatness, People

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Democracy, Important, Quality

  "The United States". New York magazine, November 15, 1971.

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• Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Income, Favour

  1928 The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.

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• Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

  Katharine Anthony

  Too Late, Achieve, Born

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• Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Government, Ideas, Childhood

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• We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have to trick themselves out to gain attention, it is a sure sign that they are unworthy of it. If we want to make ourselves worthy, we can do so only by the innate eminence conferred by virtue. We hold great people in esteem more for the qualities of their soul than for the qualities of their fortune.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquesa de Sable

  People, Soul, Quality

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• If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Europe, Achievement

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). "As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations", Robson Book Ltd

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• Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Greatness, Distinction, Expenses

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• How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Calling, Holiness

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.505

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• Pow'r above pow'rs!
  O heavenly eloquence!
  That with the strong rein of commanding words,
  Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence
  Of men's affections, more than all their swords!

  Samuel Daniel

  Strong, Men, Affection

  Samuel Daniel, "Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex"

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• Los deseos de la carne pueden satisfacerse en cualquier parte; no es este tipo de licencia lo que distingue a New York. Se trata más bien de un deseo del ego total de reconocimiento, incluso de eminencia. Más que en otros lugares, aquí todo el mundo quiere ser alguien.

  Sydney J. Harris

  New York, Ego, Lujuria

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• I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Attention, Use

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• My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

  Kedar Joshi

  Determination, Discovery, Advancement

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• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Regret, Science, Reflection

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• Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

  Edmund Burke

  Unjust, Ancestry, Birth

  "Reflections on the Revolution in France". Political pamphlet by Edmund Burke, November 1790.

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• The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the Northern forests who were.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Vigor, Stories

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.75, University of Georgia Press

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• The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Struggle, Coward, Philosopher

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.387, Delphi Classics

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• Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

  David Hume

  Mediocrity, Literature, Occupation

  David Hume (1782). “The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688”, p.197

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• The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Children, Responsibility, Kuwait

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• En conclusión, os felicito, conciudadanos míos, por el elevado estado de prosperidad al que la bondad de la Divina Providencia ha conducido a nuestro país común. Invoquemos la continuación del mismo cuidado protector que nos ha conducido desde pequeños comienzos a la eminencia que hoy ocupamos...

  Zachary Taylor

  País, Ciudadanos, Cuidado

  John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.

  James Jeans

  Knowledge, Science, Fog

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• I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not gain any clear understanding of the psychology of the Other Men and the significance of their history till I encountered one of their philosophers, an aging but still vigorous man whose eccentric and unpalatable views had prevented him from attaining eminence.

  Olaf Stapledon

  País, Hombres, Vistas

  "Star Maker" by Olaf Stapledon, Dover Books, (p. 26), 1937.

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• La base sobre la que (nuestro gobierno está) construido es la igualdad natural del hombre, la negación de toda preeminencia excepto la anexa al cargo legal, y particularmente la negación de una preeminencia por nacimiento.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Office, Foundation

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• Hay tantas personas muy estimadas que se volvieron miserables y humilladas sólo por su mal carácter y su moral; y personas humildes que han alcanzado la eminencia y los más altos honores por su buen carácter y su moral.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Humilde, Gente, Honor

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Mares de Luces')". Libro de Hadices de Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volumen 71,

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