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“Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.”

Men Feels Mind Would Be Values Greatness Higher Glory Standards Raised Practicals Height Tempted Value Of Life Practical Life

Book:Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964

Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964

“The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.”

Needs Feels Firsts Objects Greatness Habit Higher Circumstances Comfort Activity Perception Lows Luxury Indifference Palaces Banquets

Book:Society and solitude

Source: Society and solitude

“The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.”

Found Nations Leadership Leader Greatness Source Higher Citizens Standards Average Streams Citizenship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”

Ifs Quality Greatness Higher Goodness Great Qualities

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.”

Should Persons Shows Air Greatness Higher Great Person Herons

Author:Philip Sidney

“I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.”

Men Light Eye Greatness Source Higher Labor Difficulty Relation Errors Painful His Eyes Great Men Spheres Corrections Vigilant

Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures

“We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.”

Knows Purpose Doubt Greatness Higher Capable Connected Higher Purpose

Author:Andrew Cohen

“It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.”

Country America Wealth Rich Growing Greatness Higher Highest Increase England Occasions Labour Wages Minimum Wage North America Present Time Living Wage

Book:Wealth of Nations (Abridged)

Source: Wealth of Nations (Abridged)

“I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.”

Greatness Higher Achievement Perfection Perfection And Imperfection

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”

Way Real Shows Greatness Humility Higher Humble Height Be Humble Stoops Smallness

Book:The Purpose and Use of Comfort

Source: The Purpose and Use of Comfort

“In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.”

Art Feelings Peace Greatness Higher Harmony Range Endeavor True Greatness Peace Harmony

Author:Albert Einstein

“In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Humans Reading Human Beings Common Greatness Higher Equal Understood Deviate

Author:Bert Hellinger

“The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.”

Persons States Sin Greatness Higher Citizens Infinite Committed Strikes Criminals Punishment Magnitude Head Of State

Book:Summa Theologiae: Volume 27, Effects of Sin, Stain and Guilt: 1a2ae. 86-89

Source: Summa Theologiae: Volume 27, Effects of Sin, Stain and Guilt: 1a2ae. 86-89

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