Highest when it stoops. [ Pollok ]
The highest art is artlessness. [ F. A. Durivage ]
Earth's highest station ends in -
Here he lies. [ Young ]
Music is the highest of all science. [ J. S. Bach ]
Religion is civilization, the highest. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
The ripest peach is highest on the tree. [ James Whitcomb Riley ]
The music highest bordering upon heaven. [ Lamb ]
Be true to your own highest convictions. [ William Ellery Channing ]
The highest power may be lost by misrule. [ Syrus ]
Truth is the highest thing that man can keep. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]
For highest looks have not the highest mind,
Nor haughty words most full of highest thought;
But are like bladders blown up with the wind,
That being pricked evanish into nought. [ Spenser ]
Reason and knowledge, the highest might of man! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
When the sun is highest he casts the least shadow. [ Proverb ]
What is highest and noblest in man conceals itself. [ Richter ]
The highest subject of art for thinking men is man. [ Winkelmann ]
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. [ Washington ]
Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power. [ Goethe ]
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. [ Syrus ]
The highest elevation attainable by man is a heroic life. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Divination seems heightened to its highest power in woman. [ A. B. Alcott ]
Poverty is the greatest calamity, riches the highest good. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To keep the best place (the highest side of the pavement). [ French Proverb ]
The highest spoke in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest. [ Proverb ]
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society. [ Montaigne ]
A sweet expression is the highest type of female loveliness. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]
Beauty is the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The acts that we conceal are regarded with the highest esteem. [ Pascal ]
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [ Goethe ]
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. [ Landor ]
The eyes, being in the highest part, have the office of sentinels. [ Cicero ]
Ambition hath but two steps; the lowest, blood; the highest, envy. [ Lilly ]
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. [ Emerson ]
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains. [ Balthasar Gracian ]
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure. [ Fielding ]
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. [ C. N. Bovee ]
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. [ Amos Bronson Alcott ]
Respect for one's parents is the highest of the duties of civil life. [ Chinese Proverb ]
Oh for a muse of fire that would ascend the highest heaven of invention! [ William Shakespeare ]
My highest wish is to find within the God whom I find everywhere without. [ Kepler ]
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. [ Rollin ]
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power. [ Coleridge ]
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. [ Juvenal ]
Genius is the highest type of reason, talent the highest type of the understanding. [ Hickok ]
The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. [ Schelling ]
True virtue, being united to heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. [ Milton ]
The wisest know at highest only how destiny is leading them, and are therewith content. [ Forster ]
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. [ Goethe ]
Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest. [ Milton ]
In no time or epoch can the Highest be spoken of in words - not in many words, I think, ever. [ Carlyle ]
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. [ Emerson ]
The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure. [ Addison ]
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. [ Colton ]
Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. [ Goldsmith ]
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. [ Colton ]
The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms. [ Edward G. Parker ]
Be no one like another, yet every one like the Highest; to this end let each one be perfect in himself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil, nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. [ Cicero ]
The age we live in is the true age of gold; by gold men attain to the highest honour, and win even love itself. [ Ovid ]
If thou wouldst attain to thy highest, go look upon a flower; what that does willessly, that do thou willingly. [ Schiller ]
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. [ Carlyle ]
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management. [ La Bruyere ]
Were there but one man in the world, he would be a terror to himself; and the highest man not less so than the lowest. [ Carlyle ]
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. [ Ruskin ]
To continue eternally young is, as poets write, the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to it, thou must die young. [ Rückert ]
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. [ S. Bailey ]
Man is the highest product of his own history. The Discoverer finds nothing so tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. [ Theodore Parker ]
Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son. [ William Harris ]
The highest conceptions of the sages, who, in order to arrive at them, had to live many days, have become the milk for babes. [ Ballanche ]
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments. [ J. F. Boyes ]
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it. [ Chapin ]
Duty is the end and aim of the highest life; the truest pleasure of all is that derived from the consciousness of its fulfillment. [ Samuel Smiles ]
The highest exercise of invention has nothing to do with fiction; but is an invention of new truth, what we can call a revelation. [ Carlyle ]
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. [ Carlyle ]
Where painting is weakest, - namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, - there music is sublimely strong. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
No man can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who considers pleasure to be the highest good. [ Cicero ]
The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. [ A. Tholuck ]
Soul rolls away the mist from his eyes, and the very spot selected as the receptacle of his tears, becomes the place of his highest rapture. [ J. T. Headley ]
The highest mark of esteem a woman can give a man is to ask his friendship; and the most signal proof of her indifference is to offer him hers.
Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable. [ Blackie ]
Literature positively has other aims than this of amusing from hour to hour; nay, perhaps this, glorious as it may be, is not its highest or true aim. [ Carlyle ]
In all societies it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest. In the grand theater of human life a box ticket takes you through the house. [ Colton ]
I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance. [ Charles Kingsley ]
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. [ Seneca ]
Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during glory and termless joy. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
A weak mind sinks under prosperity as well as under adversity. A strong and deep one has two highest tides, when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. [ Hare ]
The sense of beauty enters into the highest philosophy, as in Plato. The highest poet must be a philosopher, accomplished like Dante, or intuitive like Shakespeare. [ Gladstone ]
Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order. [ Hare ]
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human? [ Lavater ]
The lofty pine is oftenest agitated by the winds - high towers rush to the earth with a heavier fall - and the lightning most frequently strikes the highest mountains. [ Horace ]
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. [ Louisa May Alcott ]
There are few things more singular than the blindness which, in matters of the highest importance to ourselves, often hides the truth that is plain as noon to all other eyes. [ Rev. Dr. Croly ]
There is something in meanness? which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred. [ Thomas Paine ]
Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, it must be prayed for. [ Thomas Arnold ]
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. [ Macaulay ]
There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp - gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station. [ Colton ]
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 ]
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. [ Burke ]
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character. [ William Matthews ]
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. [ Colton ]
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. [ Hume ]
The truly great and good in affliction bear a countenance more princely than they are wont, for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. [ S. P. Sidney ]
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 Axes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. [ Pascal ]
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. [ Sir J. Mackintosh ]
There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told. [ Lowell ]
Certainly the highest and dearest concerns of a temporal life are infinitely less valuable than those of an eternal; and consequently ought, without any demur at all, to be sacrificed to them, whenever they come in competition. [ South ]
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can at any time descend; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. [ Colton ]
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. [ Hume ]
There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless soul, like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! [ Chapin ]
High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. [ Froude ]
The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another? [ Maltbie Babcock ]
Civilized society feels that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value than the possession of a good chef. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrees, nor an irreproachable private life for a bad dinner and poor wines. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]
Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. [ Walpole ]
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity: not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity, wherein dwelleth the Divine. [ Carlyle ]
Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]
Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle; and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hardworking, and intent men - their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly; for then they would satiate us, and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent. [ Ruskin ]
The devil does not stay long where music is performed. Music is the best balsam for a distressed heart; it refreshes and quickens the soul. Music is a governess which makes people milder, meeker, more modest and discreet. Yes, my friends, music is a beautiful, glorious gift of God, and next to theology, I give it the highest place and the highest honor. [ Martin Luther ]
There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. [ Hazlitt ]
Surely no man can reflect, without wonder, upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life. [ Lord Greville ]
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]