Quotes with second-highest

Quotes 481 till 495 of 495.

  • Omar Khayyam You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • C. S. Lewis You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.' 'Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.
    Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 59
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Les Brown You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Novalis Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher 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.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Mark Twain Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Fuller Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Martin Luther King One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Helen Keller The highest result of education is tolerance.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Alistair Cooke These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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