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splendor
«The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it?s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.»
«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.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bring back, grass, grieve, radiance, splendor, splendors
«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.»
«Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating 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»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Exploration,
Romance
| Keywords:
explorer, explorers, palpitating, pebbles, pit, sensation, separation, splendor, tasting, Terra, the pit, treading
«The splendor of human life, I feel sure, is greater to those who are not dazzled by the divine radiance»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
dazzle, dazzled, dazzles, dazzling, radiance, splendor
«Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
elegance, magnificence, profusion, splendor
«Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.»
«We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?''»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
afflict, all the way, amusing, annex, annexation, annexed, annexes, annexing, array, arraying, arrest, beneficent, benighted, bunch, cash, hottest, introduce, islander, Islanders, islands, lamp, municipal, novelty, pickpocket, pickpockets, primitive, robbers, sleepy, splendor, street corner, thieves
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
awful, earliest, Greek, manners, Parthenon, sculpture, sculptures, splendor, splendors, The Parthenon, The Remains of the
«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.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| Keywords:
apparent, carriages, eclipse, eclipsed, English nation, implicitly, influenced, personage, personages, procession, secrete, secreted, secretes, secreting, splendor, unconsciously
