Uttermost Quotes
47 quotes by 39 authors
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
— George Santayana
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The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto…
— Robbie Savage
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled…
— Joseph Conrad
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In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ...…
— James A. Garfield
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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never…
— Charles Dickens
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I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve…
— Robert Browning
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Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart…
— A. Powell Davies
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Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling…
— William Booth
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He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by…
— Robertson Davies
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Behold in faith the sinless, spotless Lamb of God as having already borne that weight, as having suffered for those sins, as having died for…
— Octavius Winslow
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All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights…
— Ernestine Rose
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Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in…
— Oswald Chambers
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To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and…
— Meister Eckhart
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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a…
— William Butler Yeats
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Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him…
— Herman Melville
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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish…
— Mark Twain
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