Above Him Quotes

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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. — Samuel Johnson
Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself,… — Thucydides
This is the freeing truth you can learn through your depression: You weren't created to love and worship anything more than you love and worship… — Elyse Fitzpatrick
The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him,… — James F. Cooper
Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy… — Akhenaton
The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed… — Erich Fromm
If you delight more in Godâ€™s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never… — Charles Spurgeon
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an… — Henry Ward Beecher
It is the spirit of a person that hangs above him like a star in the sky. — George Matthew Adams
The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving… — Ayn Rand
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the… — Walter Lippmann
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? — Thomas Carlyle
When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice… — Dennis Bergkamp
These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him. — Will Rogers
The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him. — Jean de la Bruyere
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers… — Alexis de Tocqueville
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far… — Patrick O'Brian

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