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
Peace Pilgrim 
Thomas Francis Meagher 
Hernando Cortes 
George Henry Lewes 
Branford Marsalis 
Thornton Wilder 
James Allen 
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci 
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
John Dawkins
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I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
Thomas Francis Meagher
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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
Peace Pilgrim
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
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