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• He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating an image of them here on earth]. Nor is there at all any composite thing or creature endowed with sensation [made by God here on earth] like those in heaven. But the face is a symbol of the rational soul, the wings are the lofty ministers and energies of powers right and left, and the voice is delightful glory in endless contemplation.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Religious, Wings, Voice

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• "Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Business, Long, Sound

  Patricia Aburdene (2005). “Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• When you aimlessly shoot for lofty goals, with no personal connection to them, you loose sight of what really matters, and what will really make you content.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Sight, Goal, Connections

  Source: fierth.com

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• He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

  James Allen

  Success, Beautiful, Heart

  James Allen (2016). “As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we're seeing the demand pool beginning to grow. We have continued to position ourselves in a way that will catch this very sustainable and fundamentally supported wave of volume growth and at the same time, help our customer base achieve their lofty goals of growth as well.

  Alan Armstrong

  Strong, Believe, Goal

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• The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled).

  Isaiah

  Proud, Lord, Almighty

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• If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Strong, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: The strenuous life”

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• Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

  Kim Harrison

  Fall, Knives, Way

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• Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Hate, Facts

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• Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The whole earth is full of your glory! You are found in our innermost heart, yet you fixed earth's boundaries. You are a strong tower for those who are near and the trust of those who go far. I have sought to come near you; I have called to you with all my heart; and when I went out towards you, I found you coming towards me.

  Judah Halevi

  Spiritual, Strong, Heart

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• Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.

  Lord Kelvin

  Hard Work, Science, Discovery

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• Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is intangible and yet being tackled by all the possible military means we can muster. And all the lofty declarations by world leaders about combatting poverty that were lauded by the General Assembly turned out to be damp squibs.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Military, War, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.

  Anne Lamott

  Dad, Inspiration, Decision

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. March 2012.

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• I think we need to lift our spirits and have high, lofty expectations for this great country of ours.The new normal of two percent [growth] that the left is saying you can't do anything about is so dangerous for our country.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Thinking, Two

  Jeb Bush at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

  Sophocles

  Children, Justice, Limits

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• Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Men, Example

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• Surrogate fathers and other male figures stepped in to give guidance after my dad died. Businessmen taught me to honor my commitments; others gave me opportunities beyond my wildest imaginations. Authors and speakers set good, solid examples of high standards and lofty goals for me; mature, committed Christians nurtured and instructed me.

  Zig Ziglar

  Christian, Dad, Father

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Office, Small Man

  "Of Man". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Art, Humble, Character

  Andrew Jackson Downing, Henry Winthrop Sargent (1859). “A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to the improvement of country residences”, p.318

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• The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  History, Important, Age

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• For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Differences, Public Opinion

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• I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Dream, Believe, Struggle

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• Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty, even a majestic countenance, but when it has "coupled hell" and become crime, it grows increasingly foul and sordid. We love and admire Hamlet so much at the beginning that we tend to forget that he is as hot-blooded as the earlier Macbeth when he kills Polonius and the King, cold-blooded as the later Macbeth or Iago when he sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to death.

  Harold Clarke Goddard

  Kings, Revenge, Ambition

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• We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Dream, Men, Different

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• Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

  Aga Khan III

  Mean, Destiny, Noble

  Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan) (1954). “The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time”

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