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Now the time is come,
That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
And let her head fall into England's lap.

William Shakespeare

Fall, Victory, Lap

William Shakespeare (1840*). “The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed”, p.468

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Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

G. H. Hardy

Science, Mind, May

G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.

Michael Josephson

Character, Noble, Adherence

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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mean, Vision, Genius

Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.

Manmohan Acharya

Flower, Garden, Rivers

"Song of the Bumblebee". Book by Manmohan Acharya, 2008.

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Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically working people who have finally reached their peak earning years after many years of far more modest incomes-and now see much of what they have worked for siphoned off by politicians, to the accompaniment of lofty rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

Years, People, Earning

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For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Iron, Sight, Self

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.127

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I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

Linus Torvalds

Thinking, Goal, Visionaries

"The Peacemaker" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. July 01, 2003.

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Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Helen Keller

Life, Happy, Education

Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

Karen Marie Moning

Black And White, Judging, Mind

Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.184, Delacorte Press

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I don't remember you being this reasonable before, " Lissa said. "It's because everyone has different definitions of 'reasonable. ' Mine's just misunderstood, that's all. " Christian's voice was lofty. "I think you must be misunderstood a lot, " she laughed. His eyes held hers, and the smile on his face transformed into something warmer and softer. "Well, I hope this isn't misunderstood. Otherwise, I might get punched. " Leaning over, he brought his lips to hers. Lissa responded with no hesitation or thought whatsoever, losing herself in the sweetness of the kiss.

Richelle Mead

Christian, Eye, Kissing

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THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea

William Butler Yeats

Beautiful, Girl, Fall

William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.5, Hayes Barton Press

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For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

Saint Augustine

Stars, Heart, Humble

Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.115

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We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.

Brother Lawrence

Spiritual, Giving, Joy

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There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.

Karen Marie Moning

Black And White, Light, Hands

Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.184, Delacorte Press

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As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.

Ryan Reynolds

Kids, Angel, Thinking

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Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hero, Heart, Angel

"The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Safe, Helping, Enough

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It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

Galt Niederhoffer

Book, Talking, Ideas

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When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

Ocean, Loss, Winning

William Shakespeare (1973). “Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved”, p.130, Springer

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From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.

Dan Brown

Angel, Light, Rome

Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Kings, Heart, Humble

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1982). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”

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Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

Alan Watts

Art, Games, Perfection

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Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

William E. Gladstone

Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Ambition, Infancy

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.167

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