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• The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
• Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. — Walt Whitman
• In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need… — Charles Baudelaire
• The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such… — H. L. Mencken
• How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want… — Joan Didion
• Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and… — Harriet Monroe
• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the… — Roscoe Conkling
• The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described… — Jean de la Bruyere
• As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being… — Georges St-Pierre
• We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

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