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«Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...»

Author: James Knox Polk (President) | Keywords: borders, contentment, presents, reign, spectacle, sublime

«Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.»

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: sublime

«Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price»

Author: Jean Baudrillard | About: Seduction | Keywords: commands, high-priced, seduction, seductions, Sex and, singular, singulars, sublime

«There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.»

Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | About: Generosity | Keywords: sublime, thieving

«Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.»

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: like this, sublime

«The bards sublime, / Whose distant footsteps echo / Through the corridors of Time.»

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: bard, bards, corridor, corridors, echo, footsteps, sublime, the bard

«Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: behind, conquer, dare, leave, leave behind, mighty, rest, sublime, sweeping, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up

«There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.»

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor, General, Politician) | Keywords: one-step, ridiculous, sublime, the sublime

«Schiller has the material sublime.»

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Critic, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: Schiller, sublime

«Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.»

Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Philosophy | Keywords: pursuits, sublime, trivial

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