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«finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love»
Author: George Bataille (Librarian, Writer) | Keywords: ecstasy, ecstatic, grandeur
«A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.»
Author: Jean Genet (Dramatist, Novelist) | About: Dreams | Keywords: grandeur, in darkness, nursed
«Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.»
Author: Thomas De Quincey | Keywords: coloring, counter, frail, grandeur, Hebrew, heritage, infancy, jewelry, signing, transcending
«Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.»
Author: Lily Tomlin (Actress, Comedian) | Keywords: Delusions, delusions of grandeur, grandeur
«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»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Heaven | Keywords: canopy, curtain, ebon, grandeur, rolls, stud, studded, studs, The Vault, unclouded, unutterably, vault, vaulted, vaulting, vaults, vault of heaven
«Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.»
Author: William Shenstone (Writer) | Keywords: diminish, grandeur
«Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.»
Author: William Ellery Channing (Author, Clergyman) | Keywords: grandeur, humblest, in force, moral character, moral force, moral principle, The Force
«An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker) | Keywords: agile, German, grandeur, mania, unintelligent
«From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, / That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: / Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, / `An honest man's the noblest work of God.'»
Author: Robert Burns (Poet) | Keywords: grandeur, lords, revered, scenes, Scotia
«Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: awakened, formal, gestures, grandeur, liveliness, lofty, solemnity, sprightlier, sprightly, stalk, stately, strut, struts, strutting
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