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Quotes About Ascend

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
~ Horace Mann
Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.
~ John L. Bates
Social well-being Ã¢â'¬Â¦ depends upon cohesion and solidarity. It implies the existence, not merely of opportunities to ascend, but of a high level of general culture, and a strong sense of common interests.… Individual happiness does not only require that men should be free to rise to new positions of comfort and distinction; it also requires that they should be able to lead a life of dignity and culture, whether they rise or not.4
~ Michael J. Sandel
comprendió con alguna amargura que nada podía esperar de aquellos alumnos que aceptaban con pasividad su doctrina y sí de aquellos que arriesgaban, a veces, una contradicción razonable. Los primeros, aunque dignos de amor y de bueno afecto, no podían ascender a individuos; los últimos preexistían un poco más.
~ BORGES JORGE LUIS
My ears are screaming as Rob gives the thumbs-up sign that it's time to surface. I ascend with him slowly, like a dying soul reluctant to leave its body, and we watch the silver trail of our babbles rising above us like shooting stars.
~ Sy Montgomery
He is maintaining substantially the same theory as that of Purgatorio XVIII: "Then, even as fire moves upward by reason of its form, whose nature it is to ascend, there where it endures longest in its material; so the enamoured mind falls to desire, which is a spiritual movement, and never rests until the object of its love makes it rejoice".
~ T.S. Eliot
three Nonees high.
~ Tanya Huff
Riding an elephant is very difficult. It's like ascending a throne: to climb up and sit on it is a strenuous task and getting down from it is the most difficult of all! Still, one has to go through such experiences sometimes
~ Kalki
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms… this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
~ Francis Bacon
by indignities men come to dignities
~ Francis Bacon
La soberbia nunca baja de donde sube, porque siempre cae de donde subió.
~ Francisco de Quevedo
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
~ Frederick Soddy
I look at each day as a chance to move one notch above yesterday - whether it's in service quality, delivery, speed, or any other aspect of the business.
~ Daniel Snyder
Black Magick is the process of self-transformation through an antinomian initiatory structure, Black meaning the hidden wisdom, power of darkness, dreams and staging the reality you wish and Magick being the process to ascend, become immortal in spirit.
~ Michael W. Ford
Do not accept the soul killing council of the weakness Or bow before any Sheep God or any other weakness You shall not bow to me Only to let me rise up within For I may spiral in darkness and light ascending the star I can only do this upright and those who bow are cursed For they are not worthy of me To know me as the Evil Spirit of the East is to know I am freedom
~ Michael W. Ford
Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
~ William Rounseville Alger
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.
~ Bertrand Russell
How do they rise up?
~ Terry Pratchett
Normally he came up the stairs as if he hated every one of them.
~ Terry Pratchett
When one begins at the bottom, ascendance is a given.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Silently, without questioning her luck—luck always favors the arrow that knows its goal—she ascends the stairs.
~ Karen Marie Moning
As we still ascend from shelf to shelf, we find the tenants of the tower serially disposed in order of their magnitude: gannets, black and speckled haglets, jays, sea hens, sperm-whale birds, gulls of all varieties -- thrones, princedoms, powers, dominating one above another in senatorial array; while, sprinkled over all, like an ever-repeated fly in a great piece of broidery, the stormy petrel or Mother Cary's chicken sounds his continual challenge and alarm.
~ Herman Melville
When I Ascended, Lady, it was to escape the nightmares of feeling…" He grimaced. "Imagine my surprise that I now thank you for such chains.
~ Steven Erikson