"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."
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"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."
"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."
"The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it."
"Excellent warriors are not violent."
"Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful"
"Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent."
"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
"There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent."
"To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it."
"It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking."
"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he."
"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
"It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent."
"I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care."
"Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind."
"It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed."
"I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory."
"That which is excellent endures."
"Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman."