Magnificence Quotes - Page 2

• To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

  Alexander Pope

  Balance, Economics, Economy

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.252

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• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gossip, Sublime, Promise

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspirational, Life, Hiking

  Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

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• Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

  George Sand

  Life, Intellectual, Flipping A Coin

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• 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

  Looks, World, Opinion

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Splendor, Wealth, Elegance

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “The young duke. Count Alarcos”

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• The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Math, Study, Ends

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.164

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• 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

  Nature, Travel, Mountain

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• The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Men, Serenity

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• We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Book, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13

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• Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?

  Sam Keen

  Children, Father, Simple

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• What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Struggle, Hockey

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• When a big change occurs in your life it forces you to change direction. Sometimes the new path may not be easy, but you can be absolutely certain that there is magnificence for you on the new path. You can be absolutely certain that the new path contains things that you could not have experienced otherwise.
  When we look back at a negative event that occurred in the past, we often see how in fact it transformed our life. We see how that event directed us toward a life that we would not change for anything.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Past, Events, Negative

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Serenity, Contemplation, Climate Change

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• one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Beauty, Art, Voice

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Stars, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.454, Modern Library

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• Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  A. J. Liebling

  Real, Past, New Orleans

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• We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.

  Alan Cohen

  Letting Go, Doe

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• No matter who you are, no matter how difficult things might appear to be, you are always being moved towards magnificence. Always.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Might, Matter, Difficult

  Rhonda Byrne (2016). “How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.

  Martin Fry

  Important, Succeed, Failing

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• Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Motivational, Honor, Pieces

  Cherie Carter-Scott (1999). “If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul”, p.132, Harmony

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• The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Serenity, Speak, Creation

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• I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I will go learn more about coral only to learn a lot more about corollary and counterturn and coffin nail. I go from magnificence to means to marquee to maniac to distyle, ductile, hindsight, shell game, veronica, yardstick, ball field, magpie, variegated, and close shave.

  Dara Wier

  Mean, Thinking, Games

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• Playground of Dreams supports kids in discovering and achieving their own magnificence, that unique quality that only they have, fostering it, watering it, and watching it sprout!

  Dash Mihok

  Dream, Kids, Unique

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