Awe Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.” quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Download Open image

“Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.”

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my…

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I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the…

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Easy writing's curst hard reading.

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To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

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I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.

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A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same…

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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

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Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

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There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.

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As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands,…

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My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense…

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Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

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“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

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“Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self. Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet…

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