Facts Quote by George Canning Download Open image “There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.” — George Canning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Facts Inspirational Knows Love Nature of Beauty Sublime
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a battle as… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content,… — George Canning Copy Share Image
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a… — George Canning Copy Share Image
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. — George Canning Copy Share Image
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens,… — George Canning Copy Share Image
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. — George Canning Copy Share Image
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the… — George Canning Copy Share Image
Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not,… — George Canning Copy Share Image
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our… — George Canning Copy Share Image
Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery… — George Canning Copy Share Image
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! — George Canning Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Truth be told from compulsive liars with a history/Everything must change 2nd chances are a mystery — C-DASH Copy Share Image
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
