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«Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind? Veil after veil will lift -but here must be Veil upon veil behind»
Author: Edwin Arnold | Keywords: Gazer, lift, searcher, veil
«There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime»
Author: Maxwell Anderson (Playwright) | About: Age, Men | Keywords: Higher Ground, inhabit, lift, walk-on
«Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.»
Author: Sam Houston (General, Lawyer, Politician) | Keywords: advantages, compare, globe, globes, Globe and, lift, Texas, The Globe
«There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.»
Author: Henry Van Dyke (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: ambition, lift, loftier, stoop, stooped, stooping, stoops
«Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey (Actress, Producer) | Keywords: higher, lift, surround
«There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.»
Author: Henry Miller (Author, Writer) | Keywords: armed, blast, blast off, enwrapped, epochs, figures, inertia, Just One, lift, lone, mummies, mummy, resurrect, resurrecting, steal away, The Mummy, throw off, unawares
«There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Civilization | Keywords: adopt, lift
«To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.»
Author: Proverb | About: Fortune, Friends, Friendship, Money | Keywords: attract, dragon, good fortune, lift, lift up, pennies, penny, The Wings, wings
«The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore (Essayist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: air, bird, favor, fish, in the air, lift, The Bird, the fish
«Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: dragged, lift, Mass, republic, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules, slander, slandered, slandering, Slanders, tries
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