I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.
John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.
the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.
In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill. . .
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.
No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
I excelled in English while I was at school.
Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.
