Splendid Quotes

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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth… — E F Schumacher
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their… — Albert Camus
Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where… — Robertson Davies
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the… — Maximus the Confessor
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state. — George Mikes
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history… — Nicholas Murray Butler
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst… — Lytton Strachey
Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles,… — Jerome K. Jerome
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep… — Herb Boyd
Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. — Benjamin Disraeli
Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand… — James Whistler
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. — Martial
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness. — Pablo Neruda
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint. — Emily Carr
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. — John Lothrop Motley

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