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Source: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution

“Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.”

Humans Enough Able Rooms Five Wall Hundred Towns Details Tongue Temples Grandeur Lofty

Author:Hernando Cortes

“Holiness is not some lofty experience, unattainable except to those who can leap the stars, but it is rather a lowly experience, which lowly people in the lowly walks of life can share with Jesus, by letting His mind be in them.”

People Life Mind Christian Jesus Stars Walks Christianity Share Experience Holiness Exception Leap Lofty Unattainable Walks Of Life Lowliness

Author:Samuel Logan Brengle

“As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.”

Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

“Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.”

People Men Natural Steps Greatness Patient Improving Boldness Lofty Vigor Steep Ascent Eminence Always Improving

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.”

Mountain All Things Climbing Towers Lofty Egotistical Mountain Top

Author:Herman Melville

“Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible. God being perfect becomes perfect man, and brings to perfection the newest of all new things (cf. Eccles 1:10), the only new thing under the sun, through which the boundless might of God is manifested. For what greater thing is there than that God should become man?”

“Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.”

Knows Trying Wife Serious Deeper Intimate Lofty Friend Love

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world.”

Men World Real Sea This World Flower Mountain Passing Passings Lofty Phantoms Frail Steadfast

Author:Reiko Chiba

“Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and beautiful life, above and below the waters, ... of lofty precipices, richly draped, even the sternest fronts made to smile and be glad, as delights the gay tropics, and alive with waterfalls, gliding, leaping, or plunging, on their way down from the giddy heights, and, as they go, playing out and in amid the foliage...”

“But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.”

Knows Men May Dream Body Action Spirit Purpose Hours Pure Ideals Determine Noble Strikes Cherish Lofty

Author:Joshua

“The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses.”

Together Science Passion Names Enjoy Pleasure Numbers Careers Hero Taste Creating Accounts Investing Delight Deeds Pursuit Preserves Lofty Fables Single Person Marvellous

Author:Francois Arago

“The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.”

Science Stars Views Embrace Mathematical Height Giants Mathematician Abyss Lofty

Author:Farkas Bolyai

“Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.”

Should Goal Simple Fronts Fit Ambition Should Have Physics Shirts Formulas Elegant T Shirt Lofty My Ambition

Book:The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

“Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge”

Sea Wind Huge Draws Bottom Invisible Ships Sail Lofty

Book:Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

“Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."”

Mind May Science Habit Mathematics Lofty Habits Of Mind

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.”

Way Mind Matter Deals Effort Principles Our Lives Habit Normal Conscious Ideals Tasks Inner Peace Practicals Procrastination Lofty Clutter Unfinished Uneasy Unfinished Business

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness are marriage and the family. Their lofty significance is underscored by Satan’s relentless efforts to splinter the family and to undermine the significance of temple ordinances, which bind the family together for eternity. The temple sealing has greater meaning as life unfolds. It will help you draw ever closer together and find greater joy and fulfillment in mortality.”

“Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.”

People Inspirational Ideas Moral Depends Humble Intuition Formal Finest Visiting Schooling Lofty

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.”

Wells Body Church Steps Higher Built Fifty Forty Principal Towers Lofty Seville

Author:Hernando Cortes

“A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.”

“...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the champion of the storm!— Then I feel envy for immortal words, The rush of living thought; oh! then I long To dash my feelings into deathless verse, That may administer to unborn time, And tell some lofty soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!”

Source: An Universal Prayer ; Death ; A Vision of Heaven ; and A Vision of Hell &c. &c

“Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.”

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“There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth. He to the realms of sinfulness came down, To teach mankind; ascending then to God, Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates, To whom his country hers refused to ope. Ungrateful land, to its own injury Nurse of his fate! Well too does this instruct, That greatest ills fall to the perfectest. And 'midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice, That, as his exile had no parallel, So never was there man more great than he.”