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«Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular»
«Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.»
«Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
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feet, grinding, ground, grounding, ground out, heights, in height, loftier, lofty, thoughts
«Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.»
«Meanwhile, in the broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backwards and forwards, with his long white nervous hands clasped in front of him. His thin, thought-worn features and sunken, haggard cheeks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, but had none the less suffered sorely in the contest. In crushing his passions he had well-nigh crushed himself.»
«MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.»
«Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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apartment, flicker, flickering, lofty, obscurity
«Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.»
«Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day»
Author: Thornton Wilder
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