Highest Quotes - Page 26

• It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Art, Judging, Honor

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• Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

  Charles Sumner

  Ignorance, Progress, Vices

  Charles Sumner (1849). “The Law of Human Progress: An Oration Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Union College, Schenectady. July 25th, 1848”, p.26

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• Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called 'culture' - and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Strong, Art, Believe

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.1, Zondervan

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• The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

  William Matthews

  Character, Giving, Anxiety

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• it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Age, Middle, Interest

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• How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the whole! The highest is not to despise the lowest, nor the lowest to envy the highest; each must live in all and by all. Who will not work neither shall he eat. So God has ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and bear each other's burdens.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Men, Envy, Bears

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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 tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.

  Ellen Terry

  Laughing, Comedian, Levels

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole - such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life - the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation, the at-onement.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Law, Differences, Giving

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.40, Penn State Press

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• It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Sex, Passion, Love Is

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• Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Beauty, Heart, People

  Fredrika Bremer (1844). “New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace”, p.94

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• The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

  Florence Ellinwood Allen

  Justice, Endeavor, Attainment

  Florence Ellinwood Allen (1965). “To Do Justly”, Cleveland : Press of Western Reserve University

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• The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

  Mary MacLane

  Literature, World, Succeed

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.46, Petrarca Press

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• There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

  Owen Feltham

  Honesty, Men, Safety

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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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• Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?

  Lilian Whiting

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Privilege

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• Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.

  Mary McMullen

  Love Is, Recognition, Form

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• The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.

  Kallistos Ware

  Educational, Loss, Men

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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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• Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system. And it's created the highest standard of living.

  Chris Chocola

  Race, Soul, Done

  "Rick Santorum secures conservative Christian endorsement; debate over Mitt Romney's business record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2012.

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• Only in America, where someone like me could have the opportunity to seek the highest office the world has to offer. Not only can all of us achieve whatever dream we want to achieve because of the place where we live and the opportunities it gives us, but that we not only can do it together, but we have to do it together!

  Chris Christie

  Dream, Opportunity, America

  "Exclusive: Chris Christie explains why he is running for president on "Hannity". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 30, 2015.

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• Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.

  John C. Bogle

  Sweat, Income, Gains

  Source: business.time.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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• Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Mean, Men, Doors

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