Exalted Quotes - Page 12

• A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.

  Michael Pollan

  Feet, Quality, Odor

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.222, Penguin

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• No Life can pompless pass away -
  The lowliest career
  To the same Pageant wends its way
  As that exalted here -

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Careers, Passing Away

  EMILY DICKINSON (2008). “Poems (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Trials, Endure, Wells

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• God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Degrees, Literature, World

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• I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.

  Samuel Morse

  Art, Ideas, Wish

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• The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Vocabulary, Names, Psychology

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• No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

  Isaac Asimov

  Heaven, Religion, Vision

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• Man's condition is never the same; he is humbled, then exalted; sometimes at peace, sometimes persecuted; enlightened today and plunged into darkness tomorrow. What is to be done? As I said, let us be prepared for whatever may happen.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Men, Darkness

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Men, Flesh

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• We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

  Barnett Newman

  Men, Desire, Emotion

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

  Dorothy Day

  Emotion, Capable

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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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• Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

  Alan Seeger

  Beauty, Sweet, Light

  Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

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• There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

  Sterling Hayden

  Men, Actors, Want

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.43, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.

  Marion G. Romney

  Life, God, Faith

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• Some people... some people like cupcakes
  Exclusively, while myself, I say,
  There is naught nor ought there be nothing
  So exalted on the face of god's grey
  Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

  Frank Zappa

  Cupcakes, People, Earth

  Song: Muffin Man, Album: Bongo Fury

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• Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

  Albertus Magnus

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  "Discovering the cosmos". Book by R.C. Bless, p. 686, 1996.

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• n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Gratitude, Joy

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• The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

  Gilbert Parker

  Song, Sweet, Pain

  Gilbert Parker (2008). “The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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