(35 quotes found)
“Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.”
Edmund Burke
“But if you place me among the lyric bards, I shall touch the stars with my exalted head.”
Horace
“We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.”
Catherine Booth
“A person does not become clean and pure enough that they are then worthy of God's love and are exalted. God's love makes them pure and clean enough to then be exalted.”
Mitchell Jorgensen
“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
Charles M. Schwab
“I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.”
Samuel Butler
“And once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)Knock at a star with my exalted head”
Robert Herrick
“It would be a premature exaltation”
Edward Markey
“I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.”
J. V. Cunningham
