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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children -- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we should 'stand out of our own light' in order to see the eternal truths." -- Nicholas Murray
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. -- Jonathan Swift
Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time. -- Katharine Anthony
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. -- William McKinley
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence. -- A. Scott Berg
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. -- Adam Clarke
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. -- Igor Stravinsky
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? -- Orson F. Whitney
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. -- Raymond E. Feist
Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness. -- Balthasar Gracian
Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence... -- Elijah Muhammad
The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right. -- George Meany
If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence. -- C.P. Cavafy
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own. -- Seneca the Younger
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. -- William Gilmore Simms
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses. -- Ernest Bramah
One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,is that it is full of books. -- Michael Hirst
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. -- Franz Grillparzer
What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another. -- Cargill Gilston Knott
My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England. -- Kedar Joshi
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence. -- Samuel Johnson
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. -- Edmund Burke
The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence. -- William Burton
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality. -- George Bernard Shaw
Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy. -- Zachary Taylor
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler. -- Washington Allston
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords! -- Samuel Daniel
How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike! -- Joseph Hall
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. -- Mitt Romney
The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth. -- Thomas Jefferson
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. -- Horace Mann
It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well. -- Michel de Montaigne
Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal. -- Francis Alexander Durivage
However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value. -- Sathya Sai Baba

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