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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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To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Lying, World, Study

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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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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Art, Choices, Want

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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 business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

Sun Tzu

Soldier, Ladders, Kicks

Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.

Theodore L. Cuyler

New Year, Jesus, Winning

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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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From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.

Noam Chomsky

Israel, Views, Support

"Noam Chomsky: While Syria descends into suicide, Israel and the US are enjoying the spectacle". Interview with Frank Barat, chomsky.info. September 7, 2013.

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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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The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

Henry David Thoreau

Years, Perspective, Mountain

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

Renee Zellweger

Funny, Pickles, Strange

"Fictional character: Bridget Jones". "Bridget Jones's Diary", m.imdb.com. 2001.

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For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

Therese of Lisieux

Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

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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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But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.

Amor Towles

Civilization, Names, Ifs And

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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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