Quotes with loftier

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• The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

  Thomas à Kempis
  Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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• The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

  Sir Walter Scott
  British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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• When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

  Berthold Auerbach
  German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• appearance
• foundation
• calamities
• elasticity
• frivolous
• character

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