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Comparison Quotes

...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

Myles Munroe (2011). “Understanding Your Potential: Discovering the Hidden You”, p.13, Destiny Image Publishers

Comparisons are odious.

Miguel de Cervantes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.84

Comparison leads to violence.

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For like to like, the proverb saith.

Henry Howard earl of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt (1816). “The Works”, p.27

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

Brothers naturally invite comparison.

Larry Watson (2010). “Montana 1948: A Novel”, p.24, Milkweed Editions

No man is happy but by comparison.

Thomas Shadwell (1966). “The Virtuoso”, p.53, U of Nebraska Press