"Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s……" — Krista Tippett

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• Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to… — Bahá'u'lláh
• The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It… — Walter Bonatti
• As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my… — David Steindl-Rast
• The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very… — Thomas Adams
• At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits… — Mark Twain
• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses… — Francis Bacon
• Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi
• I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity… — Samuel Rutherford
• Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
• Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat,… — Virginia Woolf
• In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very… — Lucy Irvine

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