Quotes of Magnificence - somelinesforyou

“ In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. ”

- Fiona Macleod

“ On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, they classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ We rise in glory as we sink in pride.". ”

- Andrew Young

“ Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ”

- Charles Sumner

“ So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ There's no glory like those who save their country. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety. ”

- Bryant McGill

“ To him that toileth God oweth glory, child of his toil. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. ”

- Richard Lovelace

“ The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. ”

- Bible

“ Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace? ”

- Edward Young

“ The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ If there is sin against life, it consists? in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ”

- Albert Camus

“ There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. ”

- Washington Irving

“ The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. ”

- Book of Common Prayer

“ There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God… ”

- Marianne Williamson

“ I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. ”

- Richard J. Needham

“ Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. ”

- St. Teresa of Avila

“ Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. ”

- Richard H. Baker

“ Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. ”

- Emily Carr

“ The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. ”

- George Leigh Mallory

“ Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. ”

- Marcelene Cox

“ The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ”

- Thomas Gray
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