She became at once more intimate and more exalted.
– Richard Brookhiser
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- And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better – cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Satan exalted himself above God and endeavored to get man to doubt the reliability of God’s Word. – Billy Graham
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