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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
— Christopher Henry Dawson
It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.
— Philip James Bailey
A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When I write, I'm looking to turn you on and tell a good story. No more, no less. No lofty goals here.
— Kirsten McCurran
Do not little strokes - fell lofty oaks? Will not continual droppings - wear away stones? Sin, a little thing?
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty.
— Herman Melville
Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.
— James Allen
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
— Branford Marsalis
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
— Theodore Roosevelt
From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
— William Hazlitt
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
— Peace Pilgrim
Less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvelous and yet not strange.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
So often what is really nothing short of a power grab is cast in the lofty language of 'progress.
— Charles C.W. Cooke
Lofty designs must close in like effects.
— Robert Browning
Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.
— James Hervey
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
— Helen Keller
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
— Susan B. Anthony
Lofty peaks of ambition remain to be conquered. With inner strength and fortitude. And a positive attitude, above all.
— Rashmi Bansal
A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
— George Eliot
Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
— Sophocles
The God who made New HampshireTaunted the lofty land
With little men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination
— Theodore Roosevelt
It's my opinion that only in times of utter depression or lofty peace is it appropriate to be creative.
— Nicholas Trandahl
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
— John F. Kennedy
I have some really lofty goals that don't even scratch upon the Olympics.
— Mikaela Shiffrin
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.
— Jean De La Bruyere
I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He is lofty, and I am eminent.
— Gough Whitlam
He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
It is one thing to read scandalous verse, quite another to disguise it behind lofty pretension.
— Maggie Fenton
From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.
— Andrew Jackson
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
— Edmund Waller
You're not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite.
— Harlan Coben
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
— George Henry Lewes
I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.
— Charlie Trotter
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
— Shmuel Niger
It is only from the lofty height of dreams, that we may appreciate the true glory of reality.
— Teresa Patterson
O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.
— William Blake
I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is bettercheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.
— Michel De Montaigne
Now the time is come,That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
And let her head fall into England's lap. — William Shakespeare
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
— Thornton Wilder
Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .
— Vladimir Putin
For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.
— Charles Spurgeon
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer
Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement
— Michael Josephson
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The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...
— Farkas Bolyai
And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.
— William Allen Butler
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.
— Linus Torvalds
Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.
— Fazil Iskander
Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.
— Charles Kingsley
Iron bridges hum and lofty buildings of steel and glass glint in the sun's rays and lean over everything with stretched shadows.
— Logan Ryan Smith
The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.
— Lofty Wiseman
People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
— Anton Chekhov
Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
— Walter Scott
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
— Alfred North Whitehead
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
— Vittorio Alfieri
Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers.
— Homer
Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.
— Gottfried Keller
I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown,
The people snatched my crown,
And, in the mire, trod down
My lofty name. — Theodore Tilton
Who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish.
— Allen Ginsberg
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
My fury was lofty, pure, cool.
— Banana Yoshimoto
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
— Gelett Burgess
Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.
— Mason Cooley
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
— Honore De Balzac
A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there!
— Akiva Ben Joseph
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
— Leonardo Da Vinci