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Highest Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but…
- That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
- The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
- The highest condition of art is artlessness.
- I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own…
- If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating…
- To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
- Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest…
- To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.
More Highest Quotes
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To seek the highest good is to live well. — Saint Augustine
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. — Richard Bach
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest… — Roseanne Barr
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but… — Joseph Addison
- And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing… — Glenn Beck
- Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes. — Ezra Taft Benson