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Letter "H" » heights
«I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.»
«Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.»
«Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(
Spiritual leader,
Teacher)
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Keywords:
feet,
grinding,
ground,
grounding,
ground out,
heights,
in height,
loftier,
lofty,
thoughts
«New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(
Critic)
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About:
Cities
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Keywords:
absent,
flat,
geometric,
greenish,
grid,
grids,
heights,
inferno,
lattice,
lattices,
metropolis,
petrified,
petrifies,
the metropolis
«Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.»
«Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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About:
Men and Women
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Keywords:
birds,
caged,
delicate,
flying bird,
fragile,
heights,
hitherto,
savage,
soulful,
stranger,
strayed,
straying,
strays,
sweeter,
treated
«My downfall raises me to infinite heights.»
«Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(
Bishop,
Theologian)
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About:
Mankind,
Men
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Keywords:
abroad,
circular,
compass,
compasses,
compassing,
courses,
heights,
huge,
Long Course,
motions,
mountains,
mountain pass,
ocean,
pass by,
rivers,
River Went,
The Long,
The Sea,
vast,
waves,
wondering
«Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(
Bishop,
Theologian)
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About:
Admiration,
Mankind
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Keywords:
abroad,
billowing,
broad,
circuits,
compass,
heights,
mountain pass,
rivers,
River Went,
The Mighty,
tides
«Mine is an unchanging love,Higher than the heights above,Deeper than the depths beneath,Free and faithful, strong as death.»