Best Magnificence Sayings
92 Magnificence quotes by 75 unique authors
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If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
— Mother Teresa
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Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital, putting your foot…
— Paulo Coelho
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Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.
— Paulo Coelho
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There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil…
— John Steinbeck
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It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human…
— Louis de Bernieres
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A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained…
— Joe Paterno
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When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other…
— Joseph Addison
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The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are…
— Robert Graves
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No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing…
— A J Liebling
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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
— Richard J. Needham
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able…
— David Berg
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Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far…
— John Ruskin
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
— Teresa of Avila
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We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.
— Martin Fry
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Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
— Annie Leibovitz
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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not…
— George Sand
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How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger…
— Carl Sagan
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A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown…
— Arthur Golden
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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into…
— Ann Patchett
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I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the…
— Lynn Austin
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the…
— Alan Watts
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