"Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle." — Dante Alighieri

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• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy… — Saint Augustine
• Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the… — Annie Besant
• In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend. — Pierre Corneille
• Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. — Pierre Corneille
• Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to… — Charles Caleb Colton
• The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. — Carlos Fuentes
• Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into… — Xavier Becerra
• The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain… — Ravi Zacharias
• Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise. — Lord Byron
• Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of… — Charles Babbage

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