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• God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret.... It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know... that he was once a man like us.... Here, then, is eternal life - to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves... the same as all Gods have done before you.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Character, Men

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• But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Dark, Moments

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• And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Wells, Idle

  "Notes From Underground And The Grand Inquisitor".

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• Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Scotch, Fey

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• I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Real, Passion, Heart

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• At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.

  Ernest Bramah

  Winning, Names, Numbers

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.345, e-artnow

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• I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Long, Soul, Lasts

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• A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Love Is, Self, Expression

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement”, p.181, Main Street Books

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• I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

  John Malkovich

  Levels, Impossible, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Years, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.

  J. V. Cunningham

  Vulgar

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• Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.

  Dallas Willard

  Lying, Feelings, Body

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• It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills a place with dignity who is invited to it by his fellow citizens from the experience they have had of his adequate abilities.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Citizens, Adequate

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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• To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be mentioned only with a certain hesitation. People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith. Somehow, we feel such things should be kept for our exalted moments, and not paraded in company, or allowed to spill out over dinner.

  Roger Scruton

  Beautiful, Religious, People

  Roger Scruton (2009). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.14, OUP Oxford

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• If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium!

  Gabriel Faure

  Cry, Delirium, Wagner

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• Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In our teaching we have so exalted the virtues of data-driven decision making that in many ways we condemn managers only to be able to take action after the data is clear and the game is over. In many ways a good theory is more accurate than data. It allows you to see into the future more clearly.

  Clayton Christensen

  Teaching, Technology, Data

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.

  Rod Stryker

  Spiritual, Yoga, Sublime

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• What brings us to perfection? An ingrained faith in God, the 'faith that makes real the things for which we hope' (Heb. 11:1), the faith whereby Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain and was commended as righteous (cf. Heb 11:4). It is such faith that fills those assiduous in the search for truth with great aspiration for the exalted gifts of God, and leads them to the spiritual knowledge of created beings; and it pours into their hearts the inexhaustible treasures of the Spirit.

  Niketas Stethatos

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• To be a nun is a very great blessing. It's a great inspiration to think that the Sangha goes all the way back to the Buddha and that so many fantastic, really truly-realized beings have been ordained. Thinking of all those members, such a wonderful, exalted and holy order - I love the Sangha.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Inspiration, Blessing, Thinking

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Thinking, Looks

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• Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motivational, Atheist, Book

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.279, tredition

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• We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Horizon, Levels

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• Awake! Arise! And be exalted! Make your life a success!.

  Haidakhan Babaji

  Arise, Awake

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• Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.

  Polly Toynbee

  Fire, People, Together

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