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"You're always being led to your highest good, as long as you have the courage to listen."
"The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world."
"Modesty is the highest elegance"
"Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good."
"What's highest and best for you is always what's highest and best for everyone around you."
"The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it."
"Faith is the highest passion in a man."
"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not."
"Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things."
"Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials."
"The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest."
"To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty"
"I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly."
"One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery."
"Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed."
"Religion is civilization, the highest."
"Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom."
"Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation."
"What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people."
"Happiness is the highest form of health."