Highest Quotes - Page 16

• I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Education, People, Acquisition

  William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1852). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.206

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• [Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  World, Paid, Secretary

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• Thus doth the ever-changing course of things
  Run a perpetual circle, ever turning;
  And that same day, that highest glory brings,
  Brings us unto the point of back-returning.

  Samuel Daniel

  Running, Circles, Glory

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.215

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• The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Religious, Art, Men

  John Stuart Blackie (1858). “On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh”, p.104

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• At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Education, Disappointment, Wall

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• Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Ideas, Privilege

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• I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.

  Kwame Dawes

  Meaningful, Art, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

  Agnes Smedley

  Fighting, Men, Joy

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.

  Arthur Wesley Dow

  Art, Expression, Creative

  "Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts" by Nancy E. Green and Jessie Poesch, Exhibt Cat., New York, 1999.

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• The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world. You can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live.

  Donald Tsang

  People, Friendly, World

  "CE speaks at Business for Clean Air' Joint Conference". www.info.gov.hk. November 27, 2006.

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• There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Flower, Genius, Human Nature

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• the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  God, Sex, Men

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• Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Agreement, Differences

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• I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

  Sean Parker

  Focus, Values

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• Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.

  Lena Headey

  Blood, Cost

  "Fictional character: Queen Gorgo". "300", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Ideas, Who I Am, Soul

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• A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.

  Robert Greene

  Dirty, Writing, People

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• It has been said that work is the highest form of play.

  Catherine Ponder

  Work, Play, Form

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

  Steve Perry

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

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• True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

  Epes Sargent

  Religious, Spring, Men

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• Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away from its hollow mockeries and misleading altars that the anthem of the angels broke clear and loud above the slopes of Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest! Peace on earth and good will toward men!

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Christmas, Angel, Thoughtful

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• We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

  Sadao Araki

  Military, Causes, Morality

  "Behind the Japanese Mask" by Jesse Frederick Steiner, (p. 43), 1943.

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• Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.

  William Torrey Harris

  God, Character, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 271, 1895.

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• The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exercise, Understanding, Religion

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.105

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