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  • Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
  • To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
  • The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
  • It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
  • It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
  • As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
  • Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
  • Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
  • When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
  • You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
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  • William Shakespeare But mercy is above the sceptred sway; it is enthroned in the hearts of kings; it is an attribute to God himself.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Donald Trump Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • David Gemmell A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
    Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barack Obama And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • John Dryden Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Human nature is above all things lazy.
    Household Papers and Stories (1864) Ch. 6
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Addison Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Joseph Addison Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Charles Péguy We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • John Boyle O'Reilly ''You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?'' Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night - I changed the lock!
    John Boyle O'Reilly
    Irish poet, journalist, author and activist (1844 - 1890)
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  • Pat Riley A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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