All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. — Soren Kierkegaard
What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation! — Henry David Thoreau
1) Temperance… drink not to elevation. (2) Silence… avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all — Benjamin Franklin
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, — Dalai Lama
All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public — Dean Koontz
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation — William Hazlitt