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Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person. — Mary Lydon Simonsen

Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night. — Yukio Mishima

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness. — Honore De Balzac

I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. — John Dryden

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend. — Giles Of Assisi

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend — Virginia Woolf

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin. — Sri Aurobindo

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would. — Brent Scowcroft

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. — Elizabeth I

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend. — Robert Bly

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away. — Paul McAuley

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost. — Neil Gaiman

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance. — John Vianney

Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise. — Lord Byron

He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope. — Louis L'Amour

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake. — Mike Quigley

Do not descend amongst professors or capitalists. — Walt Whitman

I carry the universe in my house of flesh, I will love you until the last star burns out and the heavens descend into darkness. — Jaden Wilkes

Maybe the bottom of my own night is a darkness I cannot descend into without "the light that is within me" becoming dark. — Pat Schneider

That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase. — Christian Lacroix

Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raise
themselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. — Charles Caleb Colton

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy. — James K. Polk

Prayer will never descend to the level where it is nothing more than a retreat house in which we find strength for ourselves, — D. A. Carson

The more desperate you are to reach heaven, the deeper you descend into hell. — Sarah Brownlee

If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell. — Mychal Judge

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven. — Rosa Luxemburg

Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle. — Dante Alighieri

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. — Cesare Pavese

No path between the stranger's home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver — Kahlil Gibran

Were every man to live according to his desires alone, the world would descend into chaos — Sherry Jones

If you wait for God to descend to earth and save you
from your fuck ups, you will be waiting until you
drop dead. — Sheeja Jose

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual. — Indra Devi

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction — Philip Sidney

I'm not such a saint as all that," Rohyr demurred. "But I don't care to descend into the gutters with him. It's already crowded enough down there. — Eresse

Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands. — Hamdi Ulukaya

Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting. — Xavier Becerra

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron. — Isaac D'Israeli

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend. — Bernard Malamud

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars. — Andre Gide

Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys. — Margery Wilson

Ambition aspires to descend. — Pierre Corneille

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light. — Abraham Isaac Kook

Ere I descend to th' grave,
May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends, and many books. — Abraham Cowley

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. — Moses

Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them. — Sadhguru

We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us. — Vivek Wadhwa

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation. — John Milton

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend. — Pierre Corneille

Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who loves feels love descend into him and if he has wisdom may perceive it from the Poetic Genius which is the Lord. — William Blake

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. — William Hazlitt

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Augustine Of Hippo

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. — Kathleen Raine

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business. — Christopher Buckley

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground. — Anais Nin

Our gods are remote from us, Jean Louise. They must never descend to human level." "Is — Harper Lee

Before you descend into the Underworld, you must go to Santa Monica. — Rick Riordan

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend. — Shawn Colvin

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? — Walt Whitman

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. — Dante Alighieri

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The ones and zeros like snow, descend and blanket my eyes, forming all. — Hugh Howey

But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? — John Milton

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. — Pliny The Elder

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box. — Gloria Steinem

They don't know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend upon them. — Larry McMurtry

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens. — Mikhail Tal

Sometimes I wish I had never saved your neck from decapitation in Faroe. Then I could just descend into lewdness in peace. — Natalia Marx

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. — Georg Trakl

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. — Stephen Fry

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. — Carlos Fuentes

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. — Alan Patrick Herbert

We were gods then. But even gods must descend from their high thrones upon occasion. — Dan Simmons

In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain — Aeschylus

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. — Pierre Corneille

Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God. — Augustine Of Hippo

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ... — Anna Letitia Barbauld

The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me. — Patsy Cline

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.
— Walt Whitman

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. — Karl Marx

She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him. — Nick Hornby

SUMMIT PLUMMET
Celeb's conquest of a mountain, then jumping off, too exhausted to descend
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Theophan The Recluse

Always remember that random ailments invariably descend when one fails to ascend into a unified state. In other words, TRAIN AWAY THE PAIN. — S.A. Traina

Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding? — Jane Welsh Carlyle

The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves. — Edmund Gibson