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«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:
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«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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