#magnificence

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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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

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