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But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.

Annie Dillard

Home, Sigh Of Relief, Height

Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.21, Canongate Books

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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Charles de Gaulle

Strong, Silence, Shelter

"Le Fil de l'épée". Book by Charles de Gaulle, 1932.

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A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.

Thomas Starr King

Lying, Feelings, Mind

Thomas Starr King (1876). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.6

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In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

John Masefield

Inspiration, Men, Play

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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

Kalidasa

Life, Dream, Spiritual

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Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

Ahmad Thomson

Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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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

Thinking, Three

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In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I testify you are individually loved of God, you are central to the meaning of His work, and you are cherished and prayed for by the presiding officers of His Church. The personal value, the sacred splendor of every one of you, is the very reason there is a plan for salvation and exaltation.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Country, Church, Exaltation

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For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day.

John Calvin

Joy, Perception, Obscurity

John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

Auguste Rodin

Flower, Character, Eye

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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Samuel Johnson

Focus, Gold, Empires

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Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

Yukio Mishima

Pain, Lying, Doubt

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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

Equality, Assuming, Reason

John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

Edward Rutherfurd

Dream, Cities, Paris

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Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

James L. Farmer, Jr.

House, Soul, Ugliness

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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry, World, Faults

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Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?

Rumi

Mirrors, Stories, Body

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The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.

Barbara Tuchman

Sunset, Dying, World

Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.1, Random House

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There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from the plight of the people in Orchid. And you can't have the splendor of Rodeo Drive without the sweatshops of Indonesia; those two things go hand in hand.

Tom Morello

Hands, Orchids, Two

Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.

Benjamin Rush

Christian, Religious, Strong

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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Work, Long, Effort

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2807, Library of Alexandria

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Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

Pablo Neruda

Roots, Tree

Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!

Muhammad Iqbal

Teacher, Evil, Giving

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Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

Frances Osborne

Grease, Made, Fortune

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Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellectual, Society, Credit

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.256, Jazzybee Verlag

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