Quotes About Eminence

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

Judaism takes the verse in Genesis, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' as part of its statutory law. Because it is the first law in the Torah it holds a special eminence.

In the English County of Sussex, upon the clay thereof, and upon a slight eminence of that clay, stood and stands a squire's house called Rackham.

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

If you were the greatest, you were the Michael Jordan of whatever business you were in.

The real Doctor Fitzpiers was a man of too many hobbies to show likelihood of rising to any great eminence in the profession he had chosen, or even to acquire any wide practice in the rural district he had marked out as his field of survey for the present.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is, rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be Somebody.

His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

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Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

a station which raises a man too eminently above the level of his fellow-creatures is not the most favourable to moral or to intellectual qualities

grandeur that few people ever

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.

Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

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

It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

Give me one man from among ten thousand if he is the best