Likely tumbles in the fire,
When unlikely rises higher. [ Proverb ]
Higher than the perfect song,
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
That never wrongeth. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Ah, the souls of those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher. [ Longfellow ]
Whenever a noble deed is wrought.
Whenever is spoken a noble thought.
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Yonder cloud,
That rises upward always higher,
And onward drags a laboring breast,
And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire. [ Tennyson ]
Ask why God made the gem so small,
And why so huge the granite?
Because God meant mankind should set
The higher value on it. [ Burns ]
Men may rise on steppingstones
Of their dead selves to higher things. [ Tennyson ]
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. [ Bailey ]
The higher the hill, the lower the grass. [ Proverb ]
The love of praise
Fills life with fine amenities. Not all
Who live have pleasant tempers, and not all
The gift of gracious manners, or the love
Of nobler motive higher meed than praise. [ J. G. Holland ]
There is a higher law than the constitution. [ W. H. Seward ]
Sink not in spirit: who aimeth at the sky
Shoots higher much than he that means a tree. [ George Herbert ]
The higher the studies the fewer the students.
The foremost horseman rides alone. [ E. W ]
The eastern hanging crescent climbeth higher;
See, purple on the azure softly steals.
And Morning, faintly touched with quivering fire
Leans on the frosty summits of the hills,
Like a young girl over her hoary sire. [ Roscoe ]
The higher the ape goes the more he shows his tail. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The higher a proud man is raised, the giddier he is. [ Proverb ]
The higher the culture, the more honourable the work. [ Roscher ]
The higher an ape mounts, the more he shews his breech. [ Proverb ]
On the stage man should stand a step higher than in life. [ Börne ]
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
A yeoman upon his legs is higher than a prince upon his knees. [ Proverb ]
The higher, the lower; and the more advanced, the more humble. [ Proverb ]
Canterbury's the higher rack, but Winchester's the better manger. [ Proverb ]
Custom is the tyranny of the lower human faculties over the higher. [ Mme. Necker ]
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. [ W. R. Alger ]
You may go to the court. A writ to remove a case to a higher court. [ Law Term ]
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. [ Spurgeon ]
'Tis but a base ignoble mind that mounts no higher than a bird can soar. [ William Shakespeare ]
Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is but a base, ignoble mind that mounts no higher than a bird can soar. [ William Shakespeare ]
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There is no finite life except unto death; no death except unto higher life. [ Bunsen ]
The higher we rise, the more isolated we become, and all elevations are cold. [ De Boufflers ]
A higher morality, like a higher intelligence, must be reached by a slow growth. [ Herbert Spencer ]
But for tradition, we walk evermore to higher paths by brightening reason's lamp. [ George Eliot ]
The higher the wisdom, the closer its neighbourhood and kinship with mere insanity. [ Carlyle ]
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. [ Ward Beecher ]
The higher character a person supports, the more he should regard his minutest actions. [ Not traceable ]
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. [ Wendell Phillips ]
You who forget your friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob. [ Thackeray ]
A friend gives himself to his beloved, and the higher his excellence the richer the gift. [ William Ellery Channing ]
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. [ Goethe ]
All men are like in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. [ Bovee ]
Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest. [ Milton ]
Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. [ Mrs. Browning ]
Religion is a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its roots and practical in its fruits. [ Amiel ]
God created out of the clay the knight and his squire. A higher sense ennobles even a humble race. [ Bürger ]
No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man. [ Carlyle ]
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The less one sees and knows men, the higher one esteems them; for experience teaches their real value. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Nature is an Aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the reecho of higher strings within us. [ Novalis ]
Men are so necessarily fools that it would be being a fool in a higher strain of folly, not to be a fool. [ Pascal ]
He will shoot higher that shoots at the moon, than he that shoots at a dunghill, though he miss the mark. [ Proverb ]
A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman. [ Addison ]
Like the air, the water, and everything else in the world, the heart too rises the higher the warmer it becomes. [ Cötvös ]
Lift thyself up, look around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness. [ Richter ]
The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of women is sooner lost than that of men. [ Jean Paul ]
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. [ Carlyle ]
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man. [ Richter ]
It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from. [ Bacon ]
Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one. [ J. C. Sharp ]
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness. [ Pascal ]
Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits the lowlier droop their boughs. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. [ Chapin ]
No man can live half a life when he has genuinely learned that it is only half a life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him. [ Philips Brooks ]
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. [ Euripides ]
The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. [ Thomas Adams ]
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. [ Emerson ]
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. [ Chapin ]
Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there the whole aspect of things changes. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
There is perhaps no time at which we are disposed to think so highly of a friend, as when we find him standing higher than we expected in the esteem of others. [ Sir W. Scott ]
Out of a horrible depth the height steps boldly forth; out of a hard shell virtue fights its way to the light; pain is the birth (medium) of the higher natures. [ Tiedge ]
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full. [ Beecher ]
Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye for our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve. [ J. F. Boyes ]
I value the education of the intellect not for its present joy alone, but for the greater growth it gives, the enlargement of the cup to take in more and higher joys. [ Parker ]
Knowledge partakes of infinity; it widens with our capacities: the higher we mount in it, the vaster and more magnificent are the prospects it stretches out before us. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection. [ Charles Reade ]
For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford. [ Zimmermann ]
Charity commandeth us, where we know no ill, to think well of all; but friendship, that always goes a step higher, gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend. [ R. South ]
Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress; a door ever open attracts no young suitor. [ Martial ]
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends, - all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father, who would call us homeward toward Himself. [ J. G. Holland ]
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. [ Colton ]
It is so possible to be glad in the gladness of other people ; and, too, it is possible so to extend one's own life into higher regions that his happiness shall not be altogether dependent upon other people. [ Lilian Whiting ]
Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of today. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely to amuse his contemporaries. [ P. G. Hamerton ]
Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. [ Yriarte ]
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion. [ Goethe ]
Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come. [ Novalis ]
Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial, but at least it is not so superficial as thought. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
We are born for a higher destiny than earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream. [ Longfellow ]
The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis. [ Carlyle ]
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope and afterwards rewarded by joy. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of the beautiful. All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste without respect to the object. They purify the thoughts as tragedy purifies the passions. Their accidental effects are not worth consideration, - there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy. [ Schlegel ]
The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object - this is eloquence, or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence - it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. [ Webster ]
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]