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Letter "H" » height
«There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
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In the City,
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The City
«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.»
«To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!»
«The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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«That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next»
«The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule»
«The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.»
«Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.»
Author: Buddha
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externals,
fast,
height,
holding,
hold fast,
in height,
lamp,
lamps,
not for,
reach,
refuge,
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topmost
«The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.»
«There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height»