“ To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery — always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ”
- Michelangelo- Copy
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“ Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. ”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- Copy
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“ Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. ”
- Ludwig van Beethoven- Copy
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“ Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ”
- Faith Whittlesey- Copy
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“ Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. ”
- B. B. King- Copy
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“ When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high. ”
- Florence Henderson- Copy
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“ I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. ”
- Henry Van Dyke- Copy
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“ Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high — i mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high — that's where i'm goin'. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth.... But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth. ”
- Lord Darling- Copy
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“ Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength, Which they upon the adverse faction want. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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