"Outrank" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that dance, Foreign measures brought from France, Reaching with a careless ease From high C to—where you please, Clever, frivolous, and gay— These will answer in their way; But that tune of long ago— Stately, solemn, somewhat slow (Dear "Old Hundred"—that's the air)— Will outrank them anywhere; Once it breathed a seraph's fire. (Tildy sang it in ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles
... individual comes into conflict with the life of the community, the personal side must not be sacrificed, but made to yield to the common. In case of conflict, as before said, common life and interests outrank personal life and interests. It may be asked how, in the ordinary regulation and government of a community of this kind, the individual and common elements are to be made to harmonize? The answer is, that the one at the head of affairs must be a true Paulist that is to say, keenly ...
— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott |
