Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
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“Everyone cannot elevate or even revelate at the same time and/or season; an appointment to elevation can result from being specially chosen...like… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ...… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to… — Shailesh Rao Copy Share Image
Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
![“I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d1/abraham-lincoln-88_ambition_i-affect-no-contempt-for-the-high-eminen_2296058.png)
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