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Higher Quotes - Page 4

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3579, Delphi Classics

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Alvin Moore, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (1988). “Selected letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, Oxford University Press, USA

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.46, InterVarsity Press

Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.175

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen: 120+ Stories in One Volume: From the most beloved writer of children’s stories and fairy tales, including The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, The Nightingale, The Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbelina and more”, p.153, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.132

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3128, Manonmani Publishers

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka (1994). “Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond”, p.182, SUNY Press

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”