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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Kenneth Grahame
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
Jean de La Bruyère
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
Sun Ra
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
Paul Bowles
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
William Osler
if you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success.
James Cameron (director)
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos He will set them above their betters.
H. L. Mencken
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
D. T. Suzuki
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.
William Wordsworth
The budding rose above the rose full blown.
William Wordsworth
A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugène Ionesco
The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool.
Vitruvius
Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.
Swami Vivekananda
Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And, whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.
Lord Byron
Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
Che Guevara
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
Kin Hubbard
Those that are above business.
Matthew Henry
I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities A still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare
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