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Letter "M" » Mediocrity
«Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.»
Author: Fulton J. Sheen
| About:
Genius,
Jealousy,
Mediocrity
| Keywords:
jealousy, pays, tribute, tributes
«Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating»
«Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| About:
Mediocrity,
Poets,
Writers
| Keywords:
formerly, rarest, sensibly
«In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Mediocrity
| Keywords:
Binet, chin, chinned, chins, dark horse, Dark Room, distended, dust cloud, feed on, flew, gallop, galloped, galloping, gallops, hoofs, hooves, horse sense, nostril, nostrils, occupations, scatter, sparks, take it on the chin, There Is Nothing Left, The Dark Room, twin, wheels
«Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people»
«Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe»
«Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Genius,
Mediocrity,
Mind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
encountered, Great Spirit, mediocre, opposition, spirits, violent
«Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man»
«In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Genius,
Mediocrity
| Keywords:
republic, Republic of, The Republic
«Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.»
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