"The grandeur of man lies in song, not…" — Francois Mauriac

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• A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
• Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold
• For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in… — Albert Camus
• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by… — Jean Cocteau
• The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man — Charles Sumner
• And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit.… — Jonathan Kozol
• War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true… — Charles Sumner
• Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what… — Henry David Thoreau
• Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms… — Henri Frédéric Amiel

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