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The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Source: The quotable Billy Graham (1966) -
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.
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The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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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 principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
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The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
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The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
Source: A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996) -
The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,Source: Holidays -
The hollows are heavy and dank
With the steam of the Goldenrods.Source: The Guests of Night
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