Sublimest Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur… — Horace Mann
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy… — Edmond Halley
Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to… — Hector Berlioz
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some… — David Brainerd
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!… — George Eliot
I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught… — Thomas Jefferson
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration… — James Dwight Dana
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood… — Percy Jewett Burrell
People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context… — Charles Garfield
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. — Horace Bushnell
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement… — W. Somerset Maugham
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do… — Robert E. Lee
Duty is the sublimest word in our language. — Robert E Lee

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