Top Lofty Quotes
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
James Naismith
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
John Dawkins
Thomas Francis Meagher 
Hernando Cortes 
Thornton Wilder 
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Horace 
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Lane Allen
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Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
Hernando Cortes
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When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
Branford Marsalis
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller
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There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.
Hernando Cortes
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And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.
William Allen Butler
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Victor HugoWilliam Hazlitt HoraceArthur SchopenhauerLeonardo da VinciEmma GoldmanGeorge Henry LewesJames AllenThornton WilderBranford MarsalisPeace Pilgrim
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