The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. — Horace Copy Share Image
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and… — Genevieve Bell Copy Share Image
The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God.… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The splendor of the salmon canapés radiant with mayonnaise disappears, swallowed by the dark shopping bags of the customers. Certainly every one… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Holy love has a way of consuming some. This is what is meant by the one who said, 'You have ravished our… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Earth has not any thing to shew more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment;… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
