Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour! — David Berg Copy Share Image
No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm! — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“She reads. She reads. She reads words of splendour to comfort her soul.” — Leila Hussein Copy Share Image
Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Alas, day, you brought light, You trailed splendour You showed us god: I salute you, most precious one, But I go to… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my… — John Howard Payne Copy Share Image
One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from… — William McFee Copy Share Image
Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich.… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming on, the sun declining in ghastly blood-streaked… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Celebrate the varied splendour in this world, and remind yourself that it can also be found in you.” — Dr Salma Farook Copy Share Image
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get… — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
