Magnificence Quotes
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
Loudon Wainwright




Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.




What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.




Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
Emily Carr




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.




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




Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.




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




A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.




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




Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.
Albert Hofmann




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




Knowledge, like energy, expands; it is not weakened when it is expended between people. The force of creation that results is ever increasing in its power, its magnificence, and in its impact.
Linda Chandler




Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.




Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine; -- no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery
Washington Irving†




Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm, a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.




Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats




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




You will have an opportunity to appreciate the magnificence of Orthodox iconography.
Cornelia Merchant




You can scarcely imagine the beauty and magnificence of the buildings we burnt.
James Bruce Elgin




A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.




Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic




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?




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




The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful? No indeed.







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