Splendors Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in…
— Rem Koolhaas
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If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort,…
— Jose Limon
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Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events;…
— Milan Kundera
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Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and…
— Albert Pike
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Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it…
— James Russell Lowell
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The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.
— Holmes Rolston III
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The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
— Dante Alighieri
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of…
— John Gunther
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
— Dante Alighieri
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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
— Honore de Balzac
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of…
— Carl Sandburg
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We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
— Ernest Shackleton
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Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by…
— Marilynne Robinson
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is…
— C.S. Lewis
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Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It…
— Mariama Bâ
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The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who Wrote These Splendors Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Splendors Quotes as follows: