“ For I respectfully declineTo dignify the Serpentine,And make hors-d'oeuvres for fishes. ”
- Austin Dobson- Copy
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“ If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. ”
- George F. Will- Copy
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“ Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. ”
- Isaac Stern- Copy
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“ Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
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“ Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. ”
- Konstantin Stanislavisky- Copy
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“ Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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“ The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths. ”
- Alexander Pushkin- Copy
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“ I had to lift my game. Aaron played incredible tennis and had me going where I didn't want to go. ”
- John McEnroe- Copy
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“ The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. ”
- James A. Baldwin- Copy
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“ 'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do! ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. ”
- Dan Seligman- Copy
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“ Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. ”
- Marina Tsvetaeva- Copy
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“ Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ Public Opinion… an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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