#ascend

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing. ↗

— George Woodcock

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I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. ↗

— Edward Gorey

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This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

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Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

#buckets #descends #god #like #mercy

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#been #democracy #democratically #elected #era

We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

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