Quotes 21 till 40 of 51.
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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