“ Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3.2K
“ There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. ”
- Henry Van Dyke- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot. ”
- Johannes Trithemius- Copy
- 3.7K
“ There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 2K
“ By depending on the great, the small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree has climbed to the top. ”
- Saskya Pandita- Copy
- 1.8K
“ God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him, High towering over all. ”
- James Whitcomb Riley- Copy
- 3K
“ I don't play small; you have to go out and play with what you have. I admit I used to want to be tall, but I made it in high school, college, and now the pros, so it doesn't matter. ”
- Spud Webb- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I hate myself on the screen. I want to die… my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet… I'd love to be tall and willowy… I'm short. ”
- Elizabeth Taylor- Copy
- 1.7K
“ No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child. ”
- Charlotte Saunders Cushman- Copy
- 713
“ My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ”
- Christopher Dawson- Copy
- 4K
“ Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ”
- James Allen- Copy
- 2.5K
“ How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1K
“ Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 4K
“ Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day affairs of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 186
“ Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 4K
“ Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
- 4K
“ Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ”
- James Allen- Copy
- 819
“ Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
- 293
“ Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
- 1.7K
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