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• Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, People, Envy

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• When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Smell, Perfect, Difficulty

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• I will prove that the world is wrong, by showing what God is...God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret...I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Ideas, Heaven

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• Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

  George Herbert

  Men, Heaven, Ordinary

  'Prayer: Prayer the Church's banquet' (1633)

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• As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

  Rose Macaulay

  Religious, Firsts, Groups

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• Lord, we lift up your name. With hearts full of praise; Be exalted, O Lord my God! Hosanna in the highest!

  Carl Tuttle

  Heart, Sunday, Names

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• . . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Humble, Simple

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?

  John Cheever

  Sex, Nuts, Tire

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

  John Norman

  Way, Taste, Slave

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• He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Gold, Riches, Fool

  Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.113

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• We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Waiting, Comfort

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• Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
  Against stupidity the very gods
  Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
  Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
  Wise foundress of the system of the world,
  Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,
  Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,
  Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,
  Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Wise, Daughter

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.435

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• Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues.

  Talaat Pasha

  Taken, Issues, Preparation

  Letter to head of parliament, May 26, 1915.

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• Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Humility, Pride

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• The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

  T. S. Eliot

  Depressing, Mediocrity, Pressure

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Desire, Moderation

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• Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

  Aga Khan III

  Mean, Destiny, Noble

  Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan) (1954). “The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time”

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• I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Morning, Faces

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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• When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Ideas, Debtors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear, stable comprehension of the wisdom, love, grace, goodness, holiness, righteousness, and power of God, as declared and exalted in Christ unto our redemption and eternal salvation?

  John Owen

  Christian, Grace, Soul

  John Owen “The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ & Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ”, Lulu.com

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• The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." And He speaks of Him as the anointed One, exalted at God's right hand. The Gospel is the Gospel of the Risen Christ. There would be no Gospel for sinners if Christ had not been raised. So the apostle says, "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins"

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Jesus, Hands, Would Be

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• Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humility, Independence, Doe

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• Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Men, Compassion

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

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• As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, War, Character

  Edward Gibbon (1781). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.8

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• The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

  Nikola Tesla

  Change, Science, Unique

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