Splendor quotes
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
-- Alexander Pope -
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
-- Brennan Manning -
Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor.
-- Colleen Houck -
How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!
-- Douglas Harding -
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
-- Fanny Fern -
A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.
-- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
-- Frances Osborne -
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.
-- Frederick Buechner -
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.
-- Frederick Sommer -
Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.
-- Gangaji -
I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.
-- Gregory of Nazianzus -
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American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.
-- Harvey Pekar -
I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.
-- Hope Davis -
I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.
-- Isak Dinesen -
The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.
-- James G. Frazer -
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Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.
-- James L. Farmer, Jr. -
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?
-- John Milton -
Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.
-- John Ruskin -
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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
-- Louise Erdrich -
Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.
-- Lucy Larcom -
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?
-- Pablo Neruda -
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The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.
-- Patricia Hampl -
My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
-- Pindar -
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
-- Robert Browning -
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Bathe in the splendor of your own Light.
-- Rumi -
She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.
-- Scott Westerfeld -
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
-- Thomas Merton -
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
-- Victor Hugo -
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Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.
-- Wassily Kandinsky -
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
-- Werner Herzog -
If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.
-- William Batchelder Greene -
I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in the mechanics of what makes this country happen, the power structures, the natural splendor.
-- Michael Light -
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Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.
-- Donald James
