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• Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Wings, World, Ghost

  'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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• And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Faith, Morning, Spring

  'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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• I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sacrifice, Epic, Men

  Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Spring 1940

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• Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Greatness, Illusions Of Grandeur, Vision

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• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Achievement, Soul, Endurance

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• There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

  Simone Weil

  Loyalty, Spring, Law

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.127, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.

  William Cowper

  Dream, Money, Wings

  William Cowper (1826). “Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery”, p.264

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• He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confusion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.58

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• I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

  James A. Garfield

  Moving, Science, Men

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.777, Best Books on

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• Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

  Fanny Crosby

  Ocean, Dark, Wave

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

  Charles Sumner

  Men, Humanity, Civil War

  Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.122

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• Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

  Georges Bataille

  Love, Taken, Reality

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.179, U of Minnesota Press

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• A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

  Pietro Aretino

  Art, Adversity, Mind

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Doe, Territory, Size

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.110, Library of Alexandria

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• What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

  Hu Shih

  Beauty, People, Groups

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• He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Want, Littles, Pursuit

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• An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Abnormal, Mania, Possessed

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Nathan Haskell Dole (1911). “The Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

  Raymond Chandler

  Integrity, Men, Hollywood

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.120, Univ of California Press

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• Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Stars, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.

  Marcel Wanders

  Luxury, Design, Opulence

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• ... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense

  Alfred Tarski

  Real, Illusions Of Grandeur, Class

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• Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.

  James Martineau

  Character, Temptation, Battle

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible will of our Soviet women, their selfless dedication, loyalty and affection to their Homeland, their boundless persistence in work and their heroism on the front manifested themselves with such strength.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Loyalty, War, Persistence

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• We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Long, Audacity

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.7, Macmillan

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• The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Audacity, Moral

  Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963.

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