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• How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

  Brennan Manning

  Heart, Glorious, Humans

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• There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Numbers, Excess, Innocent

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Taken, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

  Horace

  Courage, Adversity, Blood

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• The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

  Dante Alighieri

  Eye, Circles, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (1991). “Purgatorio”, p.153, Princeton University Press

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• Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.

  Frederick Buechner

  Pain, May, Today

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• A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  World, Speed, Has Beens

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• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Strength, Sympathy, Time

  William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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• I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Desire, Energy

  Elisabeth Elliot (2010). “Through Gates of Splendor”, p.43, Hendrickson Publishers

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• We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 10

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• There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

  James A. Baldwin

  Desolation, Fearful, Absolutes

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• Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, People, Support

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• Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Unforgivable Sin, Sin, Unforgivable

  "Universal History of Infamy". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1935.

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• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Simple, Ideas, Simplicity

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Happiness, Work

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Home, Quagmire, May

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

  Rudolf Otto

  Children, Greatness, Doe

  Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.72, Walter de Gruyter

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• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Queens, Years, Grace And Mercy

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

  Carl Sandburg

  Cheer, Giving, Literature

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

  Harvey Pekar

  Ongoing, Never Quit, Autobiography

  Interview with Shawna Ervin-Gore, www.darkhorse.com.

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• Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Life, Power, Judging

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• Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

  Rumi

  Wall, Heart, Simple

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.133, Shambhala Publications

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• In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.

  Maurice Herzog

  Men, Touching, World

  Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Seductive, Grace, Soul

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• The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

  Herman Melville

  Giving, Promise, Way

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.148

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