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Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self.
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself;
if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
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We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.
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When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.