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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

~Adam Clarke

Topics: Any Author Eminent End Error God Mankind Matter Mixture New New Testament Old Said Salvation Scholar Scriptures Testament Truth Without

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Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

~Anna Seward

Topics: Eminent Failings Good Just Record Tenderness Though Touch Will

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I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

~Ayelet Zurer

Topics: About Become Eminent Famous Famous Person Hope Just Life Me Meaning Most My Life Myself Never Others Part Person See Somehow Thing Things

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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

~B. R. Ambedkar

Topics: Different Eminent Great Great Man He Man Ready Servant Society

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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

~Charles Babbage

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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

~Charles Kendall Adams

Topics: Above Amount Attains Determines Distinction Doing Eminent Ever Excellence Greatness Him Over Required Simply Student Success Ultimate Very

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There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Effortlessly Eminent Enjoyable Few Few Things Getting Interview Microphone Often Out Person Quite Television Things Watching

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

~Edmund Burke

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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

~Flavius Josephus

Topics: Account City Eminent Father Great Greatest Had Higher His Jerusalem Nobility Now Only Reputation Righteousness

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Death Eminent Levels Life Men Reveals

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