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elevates

«The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.»
«God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection to»
«Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson | Keywords: elevates
«There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.»
«Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: elevates, or so
«Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: elevates
«PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absence of a definite statute, has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it, thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases. As there are precedents for everything, he has only to ignore those that make against his interest and accentuate those in the line of his desire. Invention of the precedent elevates the trial-at-law from the low estate of a fortuitous ordeal to the noble attitude of a dirigible arbitrament.»
«Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down»
«Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course»
«The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.»