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Letter "E" » elevated
«One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.»
«When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices.. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.»
«When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride.»
Author: Jacob Boehme
(Philosopher)
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«The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.»
Author: John Dawkins
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«Say: My Lord has enjoined justice, and set upright your faces at every time of prayer and call on Him, being sincere to Him in obedience; as He brought you forth in the beginning, so shall you also return. (The Elevated Places 7.29)»
«Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Punctuality
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«O children of Adam! attend to your embellishments at every time of prayer, and eat and drink and be not extravagant; surely He does not love the extravagant. (The Elevated Places 7.31)»
«The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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