high quotes

He maketh my feet like hinds'feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms18:33.

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the cityof God, theholy place of thetabernacles ofthemost High.God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 46:4^5.

Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the L God might dwell among them.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 68:18.

  In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the L of hosts: the whole earth isfull of hisglory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 6:1^4.

This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high.

-Cowley, Abraham
  Essays, in Verse and Prose,'Of Myself'.

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.Fogonthe Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships† And hard byTemple Bar, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, atthevery heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Bleak House, ch.1.

Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby.

-Harburg, E(dgar) Y(ip)
  'Over the Rainbow', sung by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (music by Harold  Arlen).

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends, Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends.

-Paul
  'With a Little Help From My Friends'.

'Take my camel, dear,'said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.

-Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose
  The Towers of  Trebizond, ch.1.

Come sleep,O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.

-Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway
Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 39.

The rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension, of the society.On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

-Smith, Adam
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.11, conclusion.

The light in the window seemed perpetual Where you stayed in the high room for me

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  'The Room AboveThe Square'.

It is alleged indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution: but however this be, his Majesty hath determined tomake use of only low heels in the administration of the government.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Gulliver'sTravels,'A Voyage to Lilliput', ch.4.

What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this, Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there anotherTroy for her to burn?

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'No SecondTroy', l.6^12. Collected inThe Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910).

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