Highest Quotes

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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. — Samuel Johnson
The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. — John Donne
Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life. — John Milton
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for… — Walt Whitman
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the… — Thomas Love Peacock
Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth. — Unknown Author
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language… — Katherine Anne Porter
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within… — Konrad Lorenz
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the… — John Drinkwater
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism… — Irving Babbitt
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. — Susan Sontag
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage. — Pierre Corneille
The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because… — Paul Hawken
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of… — Isaac Barrow
In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am… — Meher Baba
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the… — Aleister Crowley
I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world. — Felix Baumgartner
Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest… — Jonathan Kozol
You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went. — Gregory Corso
The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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