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To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore… — Edgar Allan Poe
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur;… — Orison Swett Marden
Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He… — Dwight L. Moody
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. — Mary Astell
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is… — Jean de la Bruyere
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur… — Ansel Adams
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep? — Fanny Crosby
The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I… — Tullian Tchividjian
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter,… — William Shenstone
The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited. — Ann Druyan
I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the… — James Otis
Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you. — Calvin Miller
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to… — Edmund Burke
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest. — Chen Shui-bian
Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is… — Orison Swett Marden
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. — Thomas Gray
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for… — Hernando Cortes
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each… — Herbert Hoover
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to… — Francis Chan
But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the… — George S. Patton
It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and… — John Steinbeck
Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may dare to love… — Pope Benedict XVI

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