Sublimest Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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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
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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
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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
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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
— Horace Bushnell
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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
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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
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Duty is the sublimest word in our language.
— Robert E Lee
Who Wrote These Sublimest Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Sublimest Quotes as follows: