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Letter "M" » magnificence
«The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence»
«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?»
Author: James Thomson
(Poet)
| Keywords:
elevating, magnificence, philosophical, poetical, sentiment, The Works, variety
«The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.»
«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.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
awe, conventional, emerge, faiths, magnificence, modern science, reserves, revealed, revealed religion, reverence, sooner or later, stressed, tapped
«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.»
Author: George Sand
| Keywords:
cling, coin, empty words, magnificence, priggish, squander, squandered, squandering, squanders
«Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
elegance, magnificence, profusion, splendor
«Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats»
«A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Economics,
Money
| Keywords:
fuel, magnificence
«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»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisements, eloquence, magnificence, numerous, pathetic, peruse, perused, perusing, promises, sublime
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