He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
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Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of his idolatry.
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Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a blame to any people.
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The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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