Exalted Quotes - Page 11

• That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Numbers, Really Great

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Envy, Mediocrity, Pity

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• Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

  Honore de Balzac

  Powerful, Passion, Wine

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• Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Able, Too Much

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.261, Pearson Education

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• First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man's; that he possesses body, parts and passions; that in a word, God is an exalted, perfected man. Secondly, we believe in a plurality of Gods. Third, we believe that somewhere and some time in the ages to come, through development, through enlargement, through purification until perfection is attained, man at last may become like God - a God.

  B. H. Roberts

  Believe, Passion, Men

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• Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Heart, People, Expectations

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• Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.

  Hervey Allen

  Book, Expectations, Skylines

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as if - perhaps because we are in such a twilight state, a melting down and reconstituting of the self - there was more opportunity to hear strains from what must be the other side, the moral music of the sphere.

  Naomi Wolf

  Pregnancy, Twilight, Opportunity

  Naomi Wolf (2011). “Misconceptions”, p.87, Random House

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• Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

  Starhawk

  Compassion, Punishment, Quality

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• Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

  Havelock Ellis

  May, Finest, Pleasure

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.52, Elsevier

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• What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Self, Expression, Might

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• In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Way, Truthful, Sincere

  "The mutual love between Allah and His servants". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wall, Race, Feelings

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• By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Firsts, Appearance

  "A Trivial Incident". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Lying, Sleep

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.316, Penguin

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• Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

  Alexander Pope

  Loss, Men, Common Sense

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes”, p.227

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• Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

  Abraham Cowley

  Humble, Inspire, May

  Abraham Cowley, “A Supplication”

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• We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

  Dorothy Day

  Emotion, Capable

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