As the ancient saying goes, "Excellence comes from diligence and waste from play.
The tea, made specially magnificent in honour of the betrothal, was such a meal as could only have been compassed in Staffordshire or Yorkshire—a high tea of the last richness and excellence, exquisitely gracious to the palate, but ruthless in its demands on the stomach.
John; my warm affection for him; my faith in his excellence; my delight in his grace.
If you think scarcely enough of yourself, and too much of others, what is that but an excellence?
If they genuinely believed in the moral excellence of burglary, penal servitude would simply mean so many happy years for them; all martyrs are happy, because their conduct and their principles agree.
Fred believed in the excellence of his bargain, and even before the fair had well set in, had got possession of the dappled gray, at the price of his old horse and thirty pounds in addition—only five pounds more than he had expected to give.
They look upon conversation as the great pleasure of life, thereby proving the excellence of their civilisation, and for the most part they are entertaining talkers.
When Stroeve was holding forth at length on the excellence of Monet, he said: "I prefer Winterhalter.
remarked on the excellence of the wine, and Strickland told us where he got it.
In the pump-room, one so newly arrived in Bath must be met with, and that building she had already found so favourable for the discovery of female excellence, and the completion of female intimacy, so admirably adapted for secret discourses and unlimited confidence, that she was most reasonably encouraged to expect another friend from within its walls.
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
Of course she did not yet know what her food would cost, but she would insist on carefulness over that, though she would also insist on its being carefulness combined with excellence.
The present day had little interest or excellence in his eyes.
To make that happen, the Welsh Government has launched a new international strategy to focus on three areas - cyber-security, compound semi-conductors, and creative industries - chosen in part for their "resilience to Brexit" and because of their "global recognition as areas of excellence".
They put in the 10,000 hours (and more) that true excellence requires.
You want to pursue excellence instead.
I can unite people around a vision and motivate a team to excellence.
We need to internalize this idea of excellence.
This list is full of potential first-time All-Stars, but Simmons feels almost certain given his excellence, the Sixers' prominence, and the East's dearth of stars.
Despite a distinct lack of Swift and her baking excellence, Selena had a pretty great day to mark her 26th year.
