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«As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.»
«Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.»
«Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them»
«Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.»
«Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.»
«Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.»
«Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.»
«Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.»
«Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.»
«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.»

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