Highest

Famous quotes containing the word highest:

    It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man’s own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    All that blesses the step of the antelope
    all the grace a giraffe lifts to the highest leaves
    all steadfastness and pleasant gazing, alien to ennui,
    dwell secretly behind man’s misery.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    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.
    Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)