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Ruskin:The highest reward for a person's toil is


The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
by Ruskin


Publius Syrus:If you wish to reach the highest,


If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
by Publius Syrus


Cicero:When you are aspiring to the highest


When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
by Cicero


James Russell Lowell:He who is firmly seated in


He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
by James Russell Lowell


H.L. Mencken:Neither sex, without some


Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
by H.L. Mencken


John C. Powys:Enhance and intensify one's vision


Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
by John C. Powys


Harriet Ward Beecher Stowe:Where painting is


Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
by Harriet Ward Beecher Stowe


Nicholas Berdyaev:God is a reality of


God is a reality of spirit...He cannot...be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.
by Nicholas Berdyaev


Richard E. Burton:Misery assails riches, as


Misery assails riches, as lightning does the highest towers; or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so riches destroy the virtue of their possessor.
by Richard E. Burton


Tyron Edwards:If rich men would remember that


If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
by Tyron Edwards


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:Ah, how skillful


Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Catharine Esther Beecher:How many young hearts


How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
by Catharine Esther Beecher


Salman Rushdie:Literature is where I go to


Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
by Salman Rushdie


Oscar Wilde:Thirty-five is a very attractive


Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
by Oscar Wilde


Rudyard Kipling:If I were hanged on the highest


If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
by Rudyard Kipling


Henry David Thoreau:It is something to be able


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 it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
by Henry David Thoreau


H.L. Mencken:And what is a good citizen? Simply


And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; there in they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber stamps.
by H.L. Mencken


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