Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Queen Gorgo: Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
Think the highest thought you can think, Feel into it, then expand it. Do this every morning.
Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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Now the valley cried with anger, "Mount your horses draw your sword." And they killed the mountain people, so they won their just reward. Now they stood beside the treasure, on the mountain dark and red. Turned the stone and looked beneath it. "Peace...
