Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.
While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.
n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.
A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.
After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.