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"The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions." »Christopher Dawson
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"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day." »Thornton
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"How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown" »William Shakespeare
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"How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!" »William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
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"There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next." »Johathan Edwards
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"He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed." »Metastasio
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"Consider your childhood, a construction building process, on a very, very steep ground. You need to stop consistantly and re-do your measures. So that your pillars shall exceptionally remain lofty till your life extincts.." »The wise Pharoah Moe
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"Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." »James Allen
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"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare" »Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
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"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." »James Allen
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"Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot." »Johannes Trithemius, 1488
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"We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" »Henry David Thoreau
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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 L. Chamberlain, General Commander 20th Maine, Union Forces,
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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