Grandeur Quote by Edward Young Download Open image “When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.” — Edward Young ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grandeur Infamy Infamy Grandeur Light Men Men Infamy Shame Shows Soar Torch Shame Torches
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and… — Elizabeth Cunningham Copy Share Image
Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“At the climax of failure, at the moment when shame is about to do us in, suddenly we are swept away by a frenzy… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man's consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
So shall I fight, so shall I tread, In this long war beneath the stars; So shall a glory wreathe my head, So shall… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Like priests with their backs to the world and their faces to the altar, the postmodern protectors of shame need to turn around, face… — Wesley J. Wildman Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“After all, delusions of grandeur are the most entertaining of toys.” — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
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