- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exalted Quotes
Quotes on high status and its limits
These exalted quotes remind even the most powerful that they sit on nothing more than themselves, and argue that artists deserve the same respect as any skilled craftsman. Browse our Art collection.
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- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of those giants who made the Indian National Congress. Seldom has the world seen a nobler galaxy of women and men, so selfless in their devotion to the cause of freedom, so exalted in thought, so brave in action, so pure in spirit.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each visible planet is the embodiment of a great and exalted spiritual intelligence Who is the minister of God in that department of His Kingdom, endeavoring to carry out His Will, the latter having in view the ultimate highest good, regardless of temporary ill.
- Antiquated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020