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Letter "H" » heights
«Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning»
«Charlotte: I could never! I have the most terrible fear of heights!Carrie: Well, I do not... you've seen my shoes.»
«If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life- it's an exhalation of life and I think I you probably need a little touch of madness.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
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Actor,
Film Director,
Producer)
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Keywords:
actor,
exhalation,
exhalations,
extra,
heights,
it An,
larger-than-life,
larger,
madness,
temperament,
temperaments,
voltage
«Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
companions,
flight,
heights,
in flight,
in height,
kept,
Night,
obtained,
reached,
sleep out,
sleep over,
slept,
sudden,
take flight,
The Night,
toiled,
toiling,
upward,
while
«A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.»
«A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me. I'm afraid of widths.»
«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
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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
«From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.»
«It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.»
«Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
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Keywords:
accomplishments,
challenge,
depths,
despair,
fatal,
heights,
pull,
The Undertaker,
undertaker,
undertakers,
valuable