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• The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Disappointment, Littles, Reason Why

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eminence, Superiority

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.62

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• The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

  Andre Maurois

  Spring, Real, Writing

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• Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

  Viola Davis

  Hate, Capacity To Love, Humanity

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• In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.

  Charles Kingsley

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 405, 1895.

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• Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

  Huey Long

  Time, Men, Good Man

  In T. Harry Williams 'Huey Long' (1969)

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• Storm the castle
  Stem the tide
  Rise above yourself
  Cry baby cry
  Cry cry to heaven
  If that doesn't do it for you
  Go ahead and cry like hell

  Meat Loaf

  Song, Baby, Heaven

  Song: Cry To Heaven, 2006

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• We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Being Different, Rising, Aversion

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jul 13, 2015

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• Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Men, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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• Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

  Rumi

  Giving Up, Heart, Dancing

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• Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

  Brian Tracy

  Blessing, Opportunity, Greatness

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• [God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also because He is far beyond being so. He sets a boundary to the boundless and in His total unity He rises above all limitation. He is neither contained nor comprehended by anything. He reaches out to everything and beyond everything and does so with unfailing generosity and unstinted activity.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Perfect, Generosity

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• A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Travel, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.217, Xist Publishing

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• In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their union, their repose, their support. Find out His mind, His character, His will; and in His greatness we shall rise above our littleness; in His strength we shall lose our weakness; in His peace we shall forget our discord.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Jesus, Character, Greatness

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1864). “A Reasonable, Holy, and Living Sacrifice: A Sermon Preached in Westminster Abbey, on January 10, 1864, Being the Day Following His Installation”, p.18

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• Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

  Voltaire

  Age, Levels, Obliged

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.61

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• If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.

  Perry DeAngelis

  Rising, Flip, Sides

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• No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.

  David Josiah Brewer

  Book, Principles, Jamestown

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• Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

  Charles Fillmore

  Time, Men, Space

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• When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat to his well-being and safety. The power which control of the money system gives to government to interfere in and direct and even take the life of the individual should not exist on this earth. No man or group of men is warranted in holding this terrible power over fellow men.

  E.C. Riegel

  Men, Safety, Giving

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• No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Trying, Empowered

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• Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied.

  Gary Busey

  Spiritual, Giving, Forever

  "Gary Busey - Life's Apprentice". Interview with Chet Cooper and Lia Martirosyan, abilitymagazine.com.

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• To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Mistake, Law, Psychology

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