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That like I best that flies beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high pyramids And thereon set the diadem of France; I'll either rend it with my nails to nought, Or mount the top with my aspiring wings, Although my downfall be the deepest hell. Christopher Marlowe
Aristotle quote: "For what is the best choice, for each individual is the..."
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. Aristotle
Tim Russert quote: "The best exercise for the human heart is reaching down to lift..."
The best exercise for the human heart is reaching down to lift someone else up. Tim Russert
So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality. Charlotte Bronte
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over. Leo Tolstoy
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism. Edward Abbey
Mark Helprin quote: "The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could,..."
The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully. Mark Helprin
To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that. Willa Cather
Alain de Botton quote: "Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge."
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge. Alain de Botton
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by... Richard Dawkins
Weel, maam' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I hafinished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; theres now to be done wiout tryin -cept laying down and dying. Charles Dickens
John Milton quote: "Solitude sometimes is best society."
Solitude sometimes is best society. John Milton
I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors--there are studies that show it--are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching. Jonathan Kellerman
A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another. Anne Rice
I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty all day like these men. I didn't say it, but at best I would keep one in the backyard, like a goat. Augusten Burroughs

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