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• From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Long, Soul, World

  Desiderius Erasmus (2016). “In Praise of Folly”, p.85, Desiderius Erasmus

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• Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Way, Individual, Process

  Richard M. Weaver (1966). “Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays”

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• Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Sea, Heaven, Depth

  Elizabeth Prentiss (1873). “Religious Poems”, p.41

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• It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

  Robert Payne

  Fall, Decline, Nations

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one's being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the breadth of it obeying Him, and the length of it following Him. Everything in the Christian life revolves around Jesus Christ. Simply put, Christianity is Christ.

  Steven J Lawson

  Christian, Jesus, Loving Life

  Steven J. Lawson (2013). “The Kind of Preaching God Blesses”, p.57, Harvest House Publishers

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• Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

  Confucius

  Journey, People, Focus

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• There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all Im after is happiness.

  Teri Polo

  Stars, Ideas, People

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• There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

  Michael Bassey

  Dream, Distance, Climbing

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• It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater
  possibilities and grander heights.

  Clarence Darrow

  Stupid, Judging, Humanity

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mean, Justice, Bows

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• In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

  Francis Quarles

  Happiness, Art, Adversity

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.37

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• For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Religious, Pain

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• Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then repeat the process. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. I always began my attacks from full strength, if possible, my ideal flying height being 22,000 ft because at that altitude I could best utilize the performance of my aircraft. Combat flying is based on the slashing attack and rough maneuvering.

  Erich Hartmann

  Break Off, Flying, Enemy

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• There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.

  Sebastian Junger

  Couple, Ocean, Past

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• I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

  Kaki King

  Differences, People, Firsts

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• I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

  Carla Gugino

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.

  Mel Gibson

  Believe, Thinking, Race

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

  Lionel Messi

  Team, School, Kids

  Source: www.worldsoccer.com

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• Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dharma, Ahimsa, Climax

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Army, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.82, Penguin Books India

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• It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Wife, Religion

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• It stands in the light transfigured, It speaks from the heights above, "Each Soul Is Its Own Redeemer; There Is No Law But Love."

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Heart, Light

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1086, Delphi Classics

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• Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Pain, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.238, Jazzybee Verlag

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• But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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