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Letter "S" » sublimity
«Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.»
«No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.»
«The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
administration, exerted, occasions, sublimity
«But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant, either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
admirable, arrangement, conceived, dozen, great seal, inventions, seal, Seal of, stupendous, sublimity, The Admirable, two dozen, various
«The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.»
«. . . I would stand,If the night blackened with a coming storm,Beneath some rock, listening to notes that areThe ghostly language of the ancient earth,Or make their dim abode in distant winds.Thence did I drink the visionary power;And deem not profitless those fleeting moodsOf shadowy exultation: not for this,That they are kindred to our purer mindAnd intellectual life; but that the soul,Remembering how she felt, but what she feltRemembering not, retains an obscure senseOf possible sublimity. . . .»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
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«When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.»
«Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.»
«Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Perseverance,
Success,
Trying
| Keywords:
agreement, coming together, furtherance, in agreement, perseverance, sublimity, succeeding, The Coming, The Foundation
«We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
inadequacies, inadequacy, on the side, opposed, religions, sermons, sublimity, wretched
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