Best Grandeur Proverbs
236 Grandeur quotes by 196 unique authors
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Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his…
— Ayn Rand
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Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or…
— Mark Strand
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You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused. She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think that Neal required…
— Tamora Pierce
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny…
— Thomas Wolfe
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The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in…
— Cassandra Clare
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A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a…
— Mark Twain
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The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the…
— Eric Hoffer
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I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our…
— William Wilberforce
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Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension…
— Thomas Berry
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went…
— A J P Taylor
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
— Umberto Eco
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of…
— Teju Cole
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At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the…
— Mario Testino
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Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of…
— John James Audubon
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My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays…
— John Updike
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Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees…
— Marcelene Cox
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as…
— Tom Wolfe
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Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found…
— William Ellery Channing
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I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.
— Jimmy Kimmel
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The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully…
— Aristotle
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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties
— Charles H Spurgeon
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It is important to remember that whereas justice has grandeur not devolving from the simian skull of man, law is a human institution and therefore…
— Propertius
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Tomorrow the sun will also rise to the occasion of another day with equal grandeur. Such is the nature of that morrow which today has…
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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When Ruben talked about spiritual freedom and self-awareness and how to change your reality, it wasnt with mystical grandeur. He spoke very practically. He talked…
— Ruben Papian
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