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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. Pietro Aretino | top
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. Matthew Arnold | top
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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. Mary Astell | top
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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. Georges Bataille | top
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Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. Jacques Bossuet | top
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The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal. Olympia Brown | top
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For 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. Albert Camus | top
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Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. William Ellery Channing | top
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. Edwin Hubbel Chapin | top
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. Jean Cocteau | top
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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. Edwin Louis Cole | top
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. George Eliot | top
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Jean Genet | top
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There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one. Mia Hamm | top
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Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. Robert Green Ingersoll | top
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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill | top
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The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur. Alan Parsons | top
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. Blaise Pascal | top
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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Thomas de Quincey | top
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The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. William Sanderson | top
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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. William Shenstone | top
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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Charles Spurgeon | top
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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. Charles Sumner | top
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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. A. J. P. Taylor | top
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. Tom Wolfe | top
