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«Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.»
«He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life»
«I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.»
«It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike»
«In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.»
«Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | About: Strength, Suffering | Keywords: sublime
«Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.»
«In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.»
«I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.»
«It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.»

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