Splendour Quotes

75 quotes by 63 authors

All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls… — John Owen
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble… — Saint Augustine
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
A splendour of miscellaneous spirits. — John Ruskin
There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic… — Victor Hugo
Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The… — Leonardo da Vinci
O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour. — Ezra Pound
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. — Aleister Crowley
One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each… — Ned Sublette
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many… — Heinrich Heine
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a… — Alexander Smith
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. — Samuel Johnson
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty,… — William McFee
Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the… — Upamanyu Chatterjee
The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour! — David Berg
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
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,… — Rupert Brooke

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