Glorious Quotes - Page 22

• Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.

  Laurence Sterne

  Humility, Expression, Ornaments

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.394

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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Humility, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• There is no Theam more plentifull to scan,
  Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Men

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• I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Struggle, Thinking, Race

  Lorraine Hansberry (1972). “Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry”, Random House Inc

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• The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Eras, Obscure

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• Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

  Sappho

  Stars, Moon, Light

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• It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with their realizations. ... Dreams go out and fulfill themselves; wishes need only to be articulated.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Dream, Thinking, Optimism

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.73, Metropolitan Books

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• A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

  Joseph Joubert

  Essence, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Self, Mindfulness, Whole

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Timeless Wisdom: Passages for Meditation from the World's Saints and Sages”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mean, Past, Want

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• [Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Men, Warfare, Noise

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.780, e-artnow

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• Just think of the possibilities, the potential. Every little boy that has just been born becomes an heir to this glorious, glorious program. When he is grown, he meets a lovely woman; they are married in the holy temple. They live all the commandments of the Lord. They keep themselves clean. And then they become sons of God, and they go forward with their great program-they go beyond the angels, beyond the angels and the gods that are waiting there. They go to their exaltation.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Angel, Son, Boys

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• If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.

  Dion DiMucci

  Reason, Performing, Ifs

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• I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Love Is, Always Trying

  Source: saseye.com

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• It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

  Hosea Ballou

  Struggle, Ignorance, Blue

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• Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

  Adam Clarke

  Death, Father, Dark

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.

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• Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

  James Ellis

  Morning, Twilight, Dark

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• My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.

  Horace Bushnell

  Bible, Fire, Discovery

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• I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

  Joanna Baillie

  Believe, Moving, Forever

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.525

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• Hail the day that sees Him rise,
  Ravished from our wistful eyes!
  Christ, awhile to mortals given,
  Re-ascends His native heaven.
  There the glorious triumph waits,
  Lift your heads, eternal gates!
  Wide unfold the radiant scene,
  Take the King of glory in!

  Charles Wesley

  Kings, Eye, Waiting

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• It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.

  Bonaventure

  Heart, Son, Men

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• The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.

  Margaret Halsey

  Art, Creativity, Dedication

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• What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! Here the Swede would find again his clear, romantic lakes, the plains of Scane rich in corn, and the valleys of Norrland; here the Norwegian would find his rapid rivers ... The climate, the situation, the character of the scenery agrees with our people better than that of any other American States.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Character, Lakes, Rivers

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• André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But in “Boyhood,” Mr. Linklater's masterpiece, he both captures moments in time and relinquishes them as he moves from year to year. He isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty.

  Manohla Dargis

  Art, Moving, Fighting

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• Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ugly, Facade, Behinds

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