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It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,
They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands.
FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.
As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a little afraid we're doing it wrong.
I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging.
Most of the meetings I get are in London, and in terms of travelling, I was getting so used to the Virgin train, I knew most of the staff by name.
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.
I personally think that most people, most of the time, do the right thing. I just believe this. Otherwise, the world would be chaos, and it's not.
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?
As a young boy in Libya, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the women were the most feeling and most functional part of society.
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.
When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that.
For the most part I stand by all of records. I just always like the one I've done most recently the best and I think that's the whole point.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.
The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.
The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.
The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse.
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.
Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.
Most of the mainstream coverage of most of the crisis - the economy, the road to get here, and the Tea Party - has been very much lacking.
I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources.
Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.
I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.
I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick
the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a
woman.
'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
