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Splendour Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
- Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
- The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege…
More Splendour Quotes
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson
- Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. — Robert Browning
- A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson
- It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter
- Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and… — R. S. Thomas
- How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth,… — Pope Benedict XVI
- At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his… — Ann Radcliffe
- Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give… — Francis of Assisi