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«In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.»
«Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties»
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon | About: Thinking | Keywords: grandeur, owe, tremendous
«Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.»
«In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art ? the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard?s canvases ? beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.»
«If there is sin against life, it consists? in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.»
«Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.»
«I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves.... Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions.»
«It [the soul] is truly an image of the infinity of God, and no words can do justice to its grandeur.»
«If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life»
«He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Love | Keywords: grandeur, loves

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