#exalted

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#exalted #exalts #himself #humbled #humbles

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#consists #creature #exalted #god #happiness

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend. ↗

— John Malkovich

#anywhere #comprehend #exalted #film #film set

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#himself #wishes

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ambition #cannot #cured #exalted #favour

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#dream #every #exalted #flesh #glory