Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant—the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful. There… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before. — E. A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur,… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion... — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
