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Loss befalls us all ; loss is half the human story, mostly, we experience moments of joy and transcendence a couple of seconds after they have already begun to fade, and our knowledge of such exalted states consists largely of their existence being held in memory. Adult human beings live with the certainty of grief, which deepens us and opens us to other people, who have been there, too. – Emma Straub	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And as Greg pointed out, he was a Democrat – but Biden once bragged about Wallace paying him a compliment, joe Biden gave a eulogy a little more than a decade ago for a former exalted cyclops of the Klan – Robert Byrd. – Dagen McDowell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What is an exalted position to a low fellow but a golden ring in a swine's snout? – Proverb	added by proverb 2 years ago
It worries me when I see in Rome, and elsewhere, the youngest seminarians being treated as though they are more special than everyone else, thus encouraging them to assume, from the beginning of their training, exalted ideas about their status. – Veronica Openibo	Found on CNN 5 years ago
"Harmony, accordingly, has been restored. Peace was made. Through Christ and his cross the universe is brought back or restored to its proper relationship to God in the sense that as a just reward for his obedience Christ was exalted to the Father’s right hand, from which position of authority and power He rules the entire universe in the interest of the church and to the glory of God." (on Colossians 1:20) – William Hendrikson (1911-1982)	added by meteorstorm 7 years ago
The silence of a heart echoes higher than thousand exalted words. – L.F. Magister	added by L.F. Magister 8 years ago
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. – Rainer Maria Rilke	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine. – Jeremy Taylor	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod. – Josh Billings	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration. – Milan Kundera	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Knowledge acquired by a man of low degree places him on a level with a prince, as a small river attains the irremeable ocean; and his fortune is then exalted. – The Hitopadesa	added by anonymous 12 years ago
While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives. – Goldsmith	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors. – Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. – Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 1871	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. – John W. Gardner	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism. – Charles M. Schwab	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. – John W. Gardner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. – Matthew 2311, 12 Bible	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise founders of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss. – Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller	added by acronimous 14 years ago

Loss befalls us all ; loss is half the human story, mostly, we experience moments of joy and transcendence a couple of seconds after they have already begun to fade, and our knowledge of such exalted states consists largely of their existence being held in memory. Adult human beings live with the certainty of grief, which deepens us and opens us to other people, who have been there, too.

– Emma Straub

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And as Greg pointed out, he was a Democrat – but Biden once bragged about Wallace paying him a compliment, joe Biden gave a eulogy a little more than a decade ago for a former exalted cyclops of the Klan – Robert Byrd.

– Dagen McDowell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What is an exalted position to a low fellow but a golden ring in a swine's snout?

– Proverb

added by proverb
2 years ago

It worries me when I see in Rome, and elsewhere, the youngest seminarians being treated as though they are more special than everyone else, thus encouraging them to assume, from the beginning of their training, exalted ideas about their status.

– Veronica Openibo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

"Harmony, accordingly, has been restored. Peace was made. Through Christ and his cross the universe is brought back or restored to its proper relationship to God in the sense that as a just reward for his obedience Christ was exalted to the Father’s right hand, from which position of authority and power He rules the entire universe in the interest of the church and to the glory of God." (on Colossians 1:20)

– William Hendrikson (1911-1982)

added by meteorstorm
7 years ago

The silence of a heart echoes higher than thousand exalted words.

– L.F. Magister

added by L.F. Magister
8 years ago

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

– Jeremy Taylor

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

– Josh Billings

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

– Milan Kundera

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Knowledge acquired by a man of low degree places him on a level with a prince, as a small river attains the irremeable ocean; and his fortune is then exalted.

– The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives.

– Goldsmith

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

– C. C. Colton