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Letter "H" » Higher Ground
«Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground»
«There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime»
Author: Maxwell Anderson
(Playwright)
| About:
Age,
Men
| Keywords:
Higher Ground, inhabit, lift, walk-on
«Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| Keywords:
chill, chilled, Higher Ground, righteous, soar
«The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, / The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, / Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; / Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by-and-by.»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bard, bards, by and by, hard of hearing, heroic, Higher Ground, proved, the bard, The Lover, The Passion
«And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.»
«How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! / For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: / I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
ascend, congregation, congregations, cut down, exalt, Hast, heights, Higher Ground, lucifer, morning star, mount, North, North Star, Son of, The Clouds, The Morning Star, The Mount, the North, Thine, throne, weaken
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alarmed, alarming, ambitious, at rest, authors, betters, clock, dormitory, dreariest, dreary, dumped, dumping, dumps, envy, eternal rest, fame, Higher Ground, High Hopes, meeting place, oblivion, Pride and, storage, struggling, The Alarm, The State, wicked
«I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, you could get hit by meteorites and not even feel it.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
buried, burying ground, Higher Ground, high style, hit, Indian, rack, racked, racking, racks, style, the rack, up on
«So in the end, what can anyone... scholar, professor, student or biographer... really say about these angels and devils, who once walked among us, though maybe just a bit higher off the ground?»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
angels, a bit, biographer, biographers, bit, bite off, devils, get off the ground, ground, higher, Higher Ground, in the end, Just a, maybe, professor, scholar, student, The Professor, walked, walk off
«If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.»
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