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A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.

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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Mediocrity

PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

3.2 · 37 votes · 147 reads

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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

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James Russell Lowell

PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

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Little things affect little minds.

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Benjamin Disraeli

PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

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Benjamin Disraeli

PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

4.2 · 53 votes

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Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

3.8 · 46 votes · 104 reads

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

WriterAmerican1811 · 19th century

3.5 · 31 votes

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Only the mediocre are always at their best.

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NovelistFrench1882 · 19th century

4.6 · 54 votes

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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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AuthorAmerican1923 · 20th century

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The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.

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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
4.6 · 36 votes · 187 reads
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer
AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century
4.6 · 23 votes · 76 reads
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
3.0 · 58 votes · 136 reads
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
Jean de la Bruyère
French1645 · 17th century
4.4 · 25 votes · 117 reads
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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
John Ruskin
WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century
3.6 · 49 votes · 119 reads
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
John D. Rockefeller
BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century
4.5 · 56 votes · 165 reads
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