Splendid Quotes

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Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health. — Jean Houston
Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran. — Herbert Kaufman
Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such… — Sister Nivedita
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love. — Octave Mirbeau
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate.… — Leslie Charteris
The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that… — Martin Caidin
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a… — Harvey Cushing
Splendid,' AbbÃ© Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life. — Sandra Gulland
I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood,… — JoÃ« Bousquet
To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men… — Jessie Willcox Smith
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady… — Ambrose Bierce
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not… — W. E. B. Du Bois
What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares Farm; of the… — James Harbord
Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where… — Constantine Peter Cavafy
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. — Doug Larson
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid… — Richard Selzer
And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never… — Oriana Fallaci

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