"A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it."
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"you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart"
"Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship."
"madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom"
"The higher our position the more modestly we should behave."
"I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness."
"You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing."
"We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are."
"The possible ranks higher than the actual."
"You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!"
"What power is higher than the power of purity?"
"Laughter is higher than all pain."
"Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see."
"Many things have fallen only to rise higher."
"Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained."
"There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness."
"Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher."
"We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God."
"Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies."
"Historically, America has answered to a higher authority."
"All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously."