Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why… — John Piper Copy Share Image
PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable… — Pindar Copy Share Image
Persephone herself is but a voice or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude.… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
There are moments when the elixir of life rises to such over−brimming splendor that the soul spills over. In the seraphic smile… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience. — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;…and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity. — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and… — Mariama Bâ Copy Share Image
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all… — Plato Copy Share Image
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image