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In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.
The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.
This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.
One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
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.
I am entirely confident that the extraordinary women we have running for us right across Canada will make excellent cabinet ministers.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Luis Suarez all play at a really impressive level and are consistently excellent.
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
When I'm home in L.A., I go to La Brea, a bakery which does artisan breads, excellent sourdoughs primarily, but also patisserie and cakes.
I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They’re quite an excellent mnemonic device.
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.
A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
The truth is, I have an excellent team, a staff that handles Blue Elephant, my translation company, perfectly. It is like a well-oiled machine.
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.
From all the available evidence, the body has an excellent immune response to Zika. Therefore, once you get it once, you will never get it again.
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
I got an excellent opportunity to learn and understand democratic values early on. And it shook me. This played a significant role in making me what I am.
It turns out having a fast car is an excellent hobby when you're a workaholic because even when you don't have any free time, you can always drive to work.
He snarled at me. "This isn't over yet, Betsy." "Excellent," I said. "I would also have accepted 'You haven't seen the last of me' and 'You'll regret this'.
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
What's crucial in a High Street store is a compelling reason for people to shop there. Shops must offer excellent customer service - and 'theatre' is a must.
If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.
The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men