22 Metaphors for aspiration

The Lord has been in the midst, and blessed us with his presence, and the daily aspiration of our souls is: Lord, show us thy will concerning us."

We need not believe that this aspiration that shows itself in the pure mind of a little child is a trailing glory that he has brought with him from some pre-existent state.

Each new aspiration after truth becomes a form of prayer.

Lina's generous aspiration at the birth of her baby brother was the hair.

For, at the best, aspirations are etherial things, and those of the Hurlingham Girl, if they ever existed, have been so recklessly puffed into space as to vanish almost entirely from view.

one so immaculate that in him such aspiration was no presumption?

Your broken hopes, your thwarted purposes, your defeated aspirations become a staff of strength with which you mount to sublimer heights.

He is addressing himself, it is true, to Philosophy; but his Philosophy is here little less than the Wisdom of Scripture: and the spiritual aspiration is the sameonly uttered under greater difficultiesas that of the Psalmist when he exclaims, "One day in thy courts is better than a thousand!"

Aspirations till then considered little else than Utopian became tangible possibilities, while, as suddenly, dangers deemed far off loomed large and near.

In Spenser's imaginative mind, these aspirations became real persons who set out to win laurels in a fairyland, lighted with the soft light of the moon, and presided over by the good genius that loves to uplift struggling and weary souls.

Ah, in those days he had a vision!a pair of soft eyes stirred him strangely; a little weak hand was laid on his manhood, and it shook and trembled; and then came all the humility, the aspiration, the fear, the hope, the high desire, the troubling of the waters by the depending angel of love,and a little more and Mr. Smith might have become a man, instead of a banker!

But the crowdthe crowdthe painted throng that steps to the tune of a fiddle, that hangs on the moods of a caterer, whose inspiration is a good dinner, whose aspiration is a new dance, that crowd is never missed by any one who really delights in the manifold attractions of nature.

The higher the aspiration of the soul, the less, of course, would be the craving for diversion, the greater the shrinking from those evil accompaniments that soon mar the most innocent delights.

Aspiration is unconscious worship, and worship is aspiration conscious of its object.

The higher the aspiration of the soul, the less, of course, would be the craving for diversion, the greater the shrinking from those evil accompaniments that soon mar the most innocent delights.

Never before was there so sudden a flux and conflux of artistic desire, such aspiration in the soul of man, such rage of passion, such fainting fever, such cerebral erethism.

Of his original conception of religion, bodied in The Ten Words, their aspirations were the legitimate historical development; as the leaf and bud are the growth of the far back roots.

Up to that time portrait painting had seemed as inaccessible as the moona sublimity I no more thought of reaching than a star; but when I saw a portrait on the easel, a palette of paints and some brushes, I was at home in a new world, at the head of a long vista of faces which I must paint; but the new aspiration was another secret to keep.

THE IMPROVEMENT OF RACIAL STOCK A vast new territory of inquiry and achievement, as yet totally unexplored, is opened by the endocrines to the eugenists, and those idealists whose most earnest aspiration is the improvement of racial stock as a necessary preliminary to improvement of racial life.

His aspiration to become a watchmaker was an early symptom of his extraordinary turn for mechanics.

He replied on July 29: "Provisional government's aspiration is independence.

Shane is one of those Irish heroesrather perhaps Ulster heroes, for his aspirations were hardly nationalwhom it is extremely difficult to mete out justice to with a perfectly even hand.

22 Metaphors for  aspiration