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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.
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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
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The highest virtue is always against the law.
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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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