Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
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The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man....
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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
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If you use scripture as science, you're not elevating scripture, you're profaning it.
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