Quotes with soars

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• Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

  Giambattista Vico
  Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake
  English poet (1757 - 1827)
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• No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake
  English poet (1757 - 1827)
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• Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

  Desiderius Erasmus
  Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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• When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.

  Ben Hecht
  American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• significance
• particulars
• imagination
• thoughtless
• reputation
• activities

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