“ Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 3.3K
“ There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. ”
- Xenophon- Copy
- 1.7K
“ If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one — I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds. ”
- Hindu Spiritual- Copy
- 433
“ Your life is entwined with the God who gave you birth. Frail dust, remember, you are splendor. ”
- Macrina Wiederkehr- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.1K
“ It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.3K
“ OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3K
“ Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world — the beauty of speed. ”
- Tommaso Marinetti- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Friendship has splendor that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love. ”
- Mariama Ba- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
- 2.7K
“ It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us. ”
- Lynn Harold Hough- Copy
- 1K
“ Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
- 83
“ Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity. ”
- Ludwig Feuerbach- Copy
- 970
“ That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
- 400
“ Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra…these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known…this is the only thing I can say about the matter… ”
- Vladimir Nabokov- Copy
- 1.7K
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