“ The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart. ”
- Henry Mitchell- Copy
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“ We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves. ”
- Bryant H. McGill- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
- 3.3K
“ That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. ”
- Edmund Waller- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease! ”
- Georgia Douglas Johnson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar. ”
- John Henry Cardinal Newman- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A fierce unrest seethes at the core of all existing things: it was the eager wish to soar that gave the gods their wings. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 678
“ As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. ”
- Marian Anderson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. ”
- Richard Lovelace- Copy
- 105
“ In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. ”
- A. W. Tozer- Copy
- 216
“ In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
- 1.2K
“ It is by faith that poetry, as well as devotion, soars above this dull earth; that imagination breaks through its clouds, breathes a purer air, and lives in a softer light. ”
- Henry Giles- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. ”
- A. W. Tozer- Copy
- 1K
“ Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb. ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Self-esteem soars in direct proportion to our forgetting the "self" part. ”
- Lady Eileen Hartley Wigginton- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.1K
“ To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found. ”
- Joan Baez- Copy
- 2.9K
“ We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act. ”
- William Winwood Reade- Copy
- 2.7K
“ When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages… ”
- Ben Hecht- Copy
- 930
“ No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise. ”
- Marian Anderson- Copy
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