#sublime

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#deny #essential #great #kind #petty

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#cherish #faith #human #imbecility #led

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#courage #deeply #enchanting #go #into

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#enemy #enjoyment #forgive #his #love

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#cannot #duty #language #less #more

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#grotesque #means #nature #offer #our

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion! ↗

— William McFee

#hour #man #moment #passion #some

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#human #human imagination #imagination #measure #realities

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. ↗

— Jane Porter

#always #apt #astonished #capable #conduct