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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.


William Shenstone


#beauty #diminish #former #grandeur #increase

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.


Laurence Sterne


#alas #contentment #grandeur #happiness #height

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.


Edwin Hubbel Chapin


#alliance #divine #does #endurance #grandeur

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.


Robert Green Ingersoll


#corners #depth #expanse #explore #fences

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.


Ralph Thomas Walker


#architects #been #book #contrary #fellow

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.


Jon Bon Jovi


#bedroom #broom #front #grandeur #his

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.


Tom Wolfe


#changed #child #dead #destiny #earth

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#life #outlook #perspective #richelle #richelle-goodrich

I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.


Bruce Oldfield


#aisle #down #dress #enormous #grandeur

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.


Charles Spurgeon


#difficulties #grandeur #lives #many #owe






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