A Quote by Hal Boyle

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Hal Boyle

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Hal Boyle
American - Journalist
July 24, 1911 - April 1, 1974

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Mark Twain

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

Louise Colet

Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of man ascends and descends, wanders off into mazes. At times the trail seems to lose itself in the wilderness of human passion and folly. But inch by inch it goes forward with halting steps.

Joseph Alexander Leighton

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Julien Green

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

Rumi

Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.

Daisaku Ikeda

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

William Rounseville Alger

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

Edward McKendree Bounds

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

Richard Price

When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.

Jaggi Vasudev

Once a country descends into evil, it doesn't emerge.

Paul Craig Roberts

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Jerome Bruner

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

John Calvin

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

John Robert Seeley

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