Grandeur Quotes
236 quotes by 196 authors
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them…
— Pietro Aretino
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
— Matthew Arnold
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and…
— Albert Camus
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of…
— Jean Cocteau
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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man
— Charles Sumner
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And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about…
— Jonathan Kozol
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War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
— Charles Sumner
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . .…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on the mysterious that…
— Rajneesh
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From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,…
— Robert Burns
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I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur…
— Horace Mann
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but…
— John Stuart Mill
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A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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