Excels Quotes
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan, or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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More Excels Quotes
Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns Excels them both.
christina rossetti— Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
william cowper— 1782 Poems,'The Progress of Error', l.415-6.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
— William Cowper, in The Progress of Error (1782), Line 415
My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find That it Excels all other bliss That world affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most men have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
Sir Edward Dyer— 1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.
My Minde to Me a Kindome Is;Such present joys therein I find,That it Excels all other blissThat earth affords or grows by kind:Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
edward dyer— MS. Rawl 85 (1588), p. 17. A very similar but anonymous copy is in the British Museum. Additional MS. 15225, p. 85. And there is an imitation in J. Sylvester’s Works, p. 651, Hannah, Courtly Poets. Compare:My mind to me a kingdom is;Such perfect joy therein I find,As far exceeds all earthly blissThat God and Nature hath assigned.Though much I want that mostwould have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave.Byrd: Psalmes, Sonnets, etc. 1588.
All of these credited for righteousness, going back from Abraham to the first man, could be described as Christians in fact if not in name, without exceeding the truth. For the name means that the Christian, through the knowledge and teaching of Christ, Excels in self-control and righteousness, in disciplines and virtue, and in the confession of the one and only God over all, and in all this they showed no less zeal than we.
eusebius of caesarea— Church History, 1.4 (completed in the 4th century)
Beware of her fair hair, for she Excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Scenes from Faust, scene The Hartz Mountain, line 335. Shelley's translation.
Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth, Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth, Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white, Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight. Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth, But the rose with all its thorns Excels them both.
christina rossetti— Christina Rossetti, Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest Excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression ; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Procession of Life
