Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.
No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.
The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.
Success won't descend on you. You have to earn it.
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.
Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.
Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.
If your kids are realizing that they descend from something, that's really great. The more you're able to inculcate that the greater amount of pride they're gonna have. That's incredible.
Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.
Obviously I descend from Africa.
The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.
And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.
We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.
Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.
Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.
Without U.S. troops, Afghanistan, like Iraq, could descend into chaos.
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.
Since I descend just as directly from Catherine de' Medici as I do from Diane de Poitiers, I have no personal interest in damning the one while glorifying the other.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.
I ascend from darkness
And depart on the winds of space for I know not where;
My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket,
And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.
When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Ambition aspires to descend.
Ambition aspires to descend
I will not descend among professors and capitalists.
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
We want to show Singaporeans that if you vote in an opposition party, it doesn't mean your town is going to descend into chaos.
Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.
Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you.
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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