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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

Peace, War, Memorable

William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.347

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Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones: Was, did, had, made, went, looked... One-size-fits-all looks like crap on anyone. Sew yourself a custom made suit. Pick a better verb. Challenge all those verbs to really lift some weight for you.

Janet Fitch

Running, Writing, People

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It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps... Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.

Howard Whitley Eves

Teaching, Mean, Math

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This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today, there are many things right, such as teachers who teach, ministers who minister, marriages that make it, parents who sacrifice, and friends who help. "We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues."

Thomas S. Monson

Teacher, Gratitude, Attitude

FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Nov 26, 2014

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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.

Barack Obama

Sacrifice, Opportunity, Community

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Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

Bill Parcells

Motivational, Football, Nfl

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Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.

Jessie Tarbox Beals

Photography, Horse, Art

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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Calvin Coolidge

Nature, Healing, Tired

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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

Booker T. Washington

Success, Thinking, Self

Booker T. Washington (2007). “The Story of My Life and Work”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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For singing till his heaven fills,
'Tis love of earth that he instills,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which over flows
To lift us with him as he goes.

George Meredith

Wine, Heaven, Singing

1883 Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth,'The Lark Ascending'.

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If you're a gay person I'd rather not be stuck in a lift with you.

Kerry King

Gay, Rock N Roll, Stuck

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Now, I testify it is a small voice. It whispers, not shouts. And so you must be very quiet inside. That is why you may wisely fast when you want to listen. And that is why you will listen best when you feel, "Father, thy will, not mine, be done." You will have a feeling of "I want what you want." Then, the still small voice will seem as if it pierces you. It may make your bones to quake. More often it will make your heart burn within you, again softly, but with a burning which will lift and reassure.

Henry B. Eyring

Father, Heart, Voice

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The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.

Walter F. Mondale

Ideas, Tides, Rising

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This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful...agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.

Frederick Seitz

Country, Opportunity, Technology

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In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.

J. I. Packer

Moving, Mean, Men

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.291, InterVarsity Press

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Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

Thomas Friedman

Wisdom, People, Dignity

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Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,
We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss.
Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;
So long!And I hope we shall meet again.

Walt Whitman

Kissing, Romantic Love, Giving

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.333, NYU Press

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Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

Rumi

Grief, Mirrors, Lost

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

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'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.

James Russell Lowell

Love, Eye, Angel

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God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after the rain, Shining and lovely again. God, make me brave for life; much braver than this. As the blown grass lifts, let me rise From sorrow with quiet eyes, Knowing Thy way is wise. God, make me brave, life brings Such blinding things. Help me to keep my sight; Help me to see aright That out of dark comes light.

Grace Noll Crowell

Wise, Pain, Rain

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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

Oliver Goldsmith

Sunshine, Clouds, Storm

Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.199

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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Women, Eternity, Eternal

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The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.

Avery Dulles

Faith, Strong, Inspiration

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He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

Benedict of Nursia

Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta
Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa
Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?

Missy Elliot

Boys, Drunk, Hip Hop

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