Exceeding

Famous quotes containing the word exceeding:

    You will see Coleridge—he who sits obscure
    In the exceeding lustre and the pure
    Intense irradiation of a mind,
    Which, with its own internal lightning blind,
    Flags wearily through darkness and despair—
    A cloud-encircled meteor of the air,
    A hooded eagle among blinking owls.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    This fellow’s of exceeding honesty,
    And knows all qualities, with a learnèd spirit,
    Of human dealings.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)