This is the praise-worthy mean, which virtueaspires to.
Injustice occurs when any one abandons his post, or meddles with what does not belong to him; and more especially when any one of a lower divisionaspires to the function of a higher.
The Buddhist aspires to a universal nothingness, and the pessimist to the moment when in the face of Nature he may cry:-- "Oh!
Now Self aspires to get on a higher place among sages, but body pulls Self down to the pavement of masses.
No more he aspires for spiritual elevation, but his, heart is naturally pure from material desires.
He gives up all mean desires and aspires to spiritual elevation.
The young author who aspires to write novels must not only labor to acquire the technic of his art: it is even more important that he should so order his life as to grow cunning in the basic truths of human nature.
It offers a sad and mortifying lesson to the votary of science who aspires to a noble enterprise.
It excels Blackwell and Fenton; and aspires to the numerous composition of prose.
Every one loves, desires, or aspires to happiness: this is the fundamental or primordial law of human nature, beyond which we cannot push enquiry.
Footnote 110: Plato here aspires to deliver one definition of Ens, applying to all cases.
A man who aspires to chivalry must guide himself by stricter rules than other men.
The man who aspires to such a name must be to his friend what every man would be to himself, if he could see his own faults undazzled by self-love and his own interests unblinded by passion.
Such excellence, though properly cultivated, where nothing higher than elegance is intended, is weak and unworthy of regard, when the work aspires to grandeur and sublimity.
At all events, he who aspires to be a true microscopist must be ready with expedients, and if he finds himself in a difficulty, he must summarily invent a method of obviating it.
But it is not with that side of a river's influence at any rate which in the main this book aspires to deal.
This form of art despises the clear and exact representation of the outer world: it replaces it by a sort of music that aspires to express the changing and fleeting inwardness of the human soul.
I think of it with pleasure, and believe it will be so; my heart aspires after this inheritance, but not with so much fervour as it ought.
Such a tyrant is the teacher, whoaspires to win the affection of his victims by means of moral exhortations.
We must behold him amidst our tumultuous human society and see how with heroic vigor he aspires to life.
Humanity aspires to God, believes in God, hopes in God, 708-m.
And whenever any one aspires to and attains such high post, especially if by unfair and disreputable and indecent means, and is afterward found to be a signal failure, he should at once be beheaded.
The Apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth Degree, the Apotheosis of that Sublime Faith whichaspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer.
This substance, this ideal spirit which becomes actual in history, cannot be ignored by any kind of pedagogics which aspires to a thorough knowledge of the essence of education.
This life, which is perpetual criticism, and unceasing progress in a learning which is never completed, which never aspires to be complete, is the serious and fruitful purpose of the University.
This takes place through virtue which aspires to assimilation with God and leads to Him.
As the soul with its longings aspires beyond all sensible things and even beyond the world of ideas, the Highest must be something above reason.
For strength from Truth divided and from Just, Illaudable, naught merits but dispraise And ignominie, yet to glorie aspires Vain glorious, and through infamie seeks fame: Therfore Eternal silence be thir doome.
But since it aspires towards universality of culture, the Normal School permits considerable freedom of organization, and avoids the dangerous over-specialization characteristic of Germany.
We may apply to him Rilke's fine phrase, and say that, if he needs must be vanquished, he aspires "to be vanquished always in a greater and yet greater cause.
What makes Jean Christophe's struggle supremely heroic is that he aspires solely towards the greatest, towards life as a whole.
If the theater aspiresto be national, it must not merely minister to the luxury of the upper ten thousand.
Invariably his efforts are directed towards the loftiest moral aims; he aspires towards eternal forms; strives to fashion the monumental.
He makes them to know that the man who aspires recks not of cold, of storm, or of snow, if only he may reach the summit and lave his soul in the glory that crowns the marriage of earth and sky.
He who aspires to the love of his mistress, ought to be dauntless in the clash of swords.
Queen of the lyre, in thy retreat The fairest flowers of Pindus glow; The vine aspires to crown thy seat, And myrtles round thy laurel grow.
Thus Beauty's palm Betwixt them wavering hangs: applauding Love Doubts where to choose; and mortal man aspires To tempt creative praise.
This priest of Pleasure, who aspires To lead us to her sacred fires, Knows he the ritual of her shrine?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aspires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
