#magnificence

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#being #corrupt #corruption #down #i

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? ↗

— James Thomson

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. ↗

— George Sand

#cling #coin #condition #empty #enthusiasm

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. ↗

— George Leigh Mallory

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Somewhere in the background of magnificence lurks the kitchen staff. But a magnificent person only forgets about his origins, never his brunch. ↗

— Bauvard

#greatness #humor #magnificence #meals #funny

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. ↗

— Richard H. Baker

#fathom #full #full moon #impossible #magnificence

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves. ↗

— Charles Williams

#doctrine #forgive #forgiven #holy #largesse

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#language #magnificence #only #the only thing #thing

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. ↗

— Emily Carr

#disorder #magnificence #ordered #perfectly

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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