Highest Quotes
2429 quotes by 1578 authors
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a…
— Maimonides
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.
— William Shakespeare
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
— Antonio Porchia
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Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
— George MacDonald
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or…
— Pliny the Elder
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You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the…
— Adolf Hitler
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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings…
— H.G. Wells
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
— Maimonides
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with…
— Aristotle
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Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it;…
— Samuel Smiles
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
— Walter Pater
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to…
— Martin Luther
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We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
— Cesar Chavez
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
— William Hazlitt
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