#exaltation

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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