#height

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. ↗

— David Hume

#beaten #heights #popularity #power #road

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#beyond #heights #more #see #set

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. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#certain #flats #floor #following #gained

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that. ↗

— Mark Lawrenson

#his #lads #makes #michael #more

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. ↗

— Horace Mann

#attaining #being #educated #full #heights

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#i #know #like #look #physique