Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life… — Bill McCartney Copy Share Image
taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I had a mini marathon once I landed the role - going from 'Splendor in the Grass' to 'Bonnie and Clyde' to… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever. — Rumi 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
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
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
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. — Samuel Johnson 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
Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one… — Hans Christian Andersen 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
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
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
Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image