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Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away… — John Ralston Saul
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There… — V.S. Naipaul
[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of… — Madison Grant
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty… — Ralph Thomas Walker
On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible… — Ferdinand von Mueller
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two… — Charles Kingsley
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. — William Cowper
There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we can… — Eli Siegel
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge,… — Meher Baba
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work. — Paul Cezanne
The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent… — Joshua Reynolds
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more… — Joshua Reynolds
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or… — Joshua Reynolds
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine. — Julia Caroline Dorr
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp. — Henry Fuseli
Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God! — John Muir
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others — John Muir
In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask… — Theodore Roosevelt
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever… — John Muir
Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great… — Theodore Roosevelt
I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur. — El-P

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