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Higher Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained…
- [There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy,…
- How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small…
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly…
- Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with…
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- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — Fred Astaire
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the… — Sai Baba
- I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for… — Michele Bachmann
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton
- Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and… — Erykah Badu
- I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get… — Christian Bale
- Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard