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
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty. — Pope John Paul II 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
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him',… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the… — James Joyce 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
And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for… — Anonymous 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
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
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
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen… — Sijie Dai Copy Share Image
Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation… — Alexander Smith 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
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats 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
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
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age… — 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