'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
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"Saul".Robert Browning
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Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye of faith loves to look.
Mark (educator) Hopkins
“He who exalts himself shall be humbled; and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.” (Matthew 23:12) The person who exalts himself ... will be humbled, because a person who considers himself to be good, intelligent, and kind will not even try to become better, smarter, kinder. The humble person will be exalted, because he considers himself bad and will try to become better, kinder, and more reasonable.
Leo Tolstoy
The grace of God humbles a man without degrading him and exalts a man without inflating him! p.113
Kris Vallotton
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Aleksandr (Alexander Pushkin) Pushkin
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
John Dryden
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