Grandeur Quotes - Page 14

• All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades
  Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind;
  Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream;
  The man we celebrate must find a tomb,
  And we that worship him, ignoble graves.

  William Cowper

  Death, Dream, Flower

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.186

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• Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Calmness

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• Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

  Edmund Burke

  Stars, Views, Ideas

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.78

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• Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spiritual, War, Men

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• Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

  Heinrich Heine

  Greatness, Men, Soul

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.169

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• If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

  Walt Whitman

  Numbers, People, Personality

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1480, Delphi Classics

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• God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

  Alexander Smith

  Infinity, Infinite

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• There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.

  Washington Irving

  Majestic, Tranquility, Tranquillity

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• I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

  El-P

  Bored, Want, Delusions Of Grandeur

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.

  James Ellis

  Winter, Naked, Majesty

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• Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

  Honore de Balzac

  Grief, People, Shining

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• Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Mad, Gone

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

  Honore de Balzac

  Special, Riches, Gains

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• In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

  Joseph Addison

  Honor, Titles, Ancestry

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.21

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• There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle of their friends and acquaintance. The poorest mechanic, nay, the man who lives upon common alms, gets him his set of admirers, and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those who are in some respects beneath him. This ambition, which is natural to the soul of man, might, methinks, receive a very happy turn; and, if it were rightly directed, contribute as much to a person's advantage, as it generally does to his uneasiness and disquiet.

  Joseph Addison

  Ambition, Men, Circles

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.20

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• My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.541, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Omnipotence, Circles

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