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Splendid Quotes

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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
Pablo Neruda

A blazing determination will bring about an exquisite joy.
Authors on Splendid Quotes: Marilynne Robinson Thornton Wilder Adam Smith Aberjhani John Calvin Francis Bacon Albert Camus Khaled Hosseini Karen Marie Moning Charles Spurgeon George Orwell Sophie Scholl Carole Nelson Douglas Edwin Hubbel Chapin Maya Angelou Marcus Tullius Cicero Winston Churchill Herbert Kaufman Immanuel Kant Clive Barker James M. Barrie Soren Kierkegaard Aesop Elbert Hubbard Lord Chesterfield Gene Weingarten Victor Hugo Pablo Neruda John Cheever Neal A. Maxwell Bob Dylan Freddie Mercury Stephen Fry
2.
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
Ansel Adams

3.
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
Immanuel Kant

4.
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.
Maria Montessori

5.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
John Cheever

6.
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
Khaled Hosseini

7.
English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Manfred von Richthofen

8.
In the end,
glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Theodor Adorno

9.
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.
Marilynne Robinson

10.
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

11.
I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
Freddie Mercury

12.
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
Clive Barker

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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Soren Kierkegaard

14.
It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.
Sophie Scholl

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What a splendid head, yet no brain.
Aesop

16.
Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?
Stephen Fry

17.
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.
Patrick SĂĽskind

18.
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
Arthur Conan Doyle

19.
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
Charles Spurgeon

20.
I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.
Agnes Macphail

21.
Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.
Gaylord Nelson

22.
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
Aberjhani

23.
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
Albert Camus

24.
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill

25.
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
John Lothrop Motley

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The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII

27.
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Oliver Goldsmith

28.
I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
Thornton Wilder

29.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Elbert Hubbard

30.
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
Lord Chesterfield

31.
What a splendid time Woo must have had.
Emily Carr

32.
The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.
Adam Smith

33.
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
Gene Weingarten

34.
His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.
Bob Dylan

35.
The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.
John Calvin

36.
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
Victor Hugo

37.
Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!
Neal A. Maxwell

38.
Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life.
Sandra Gulland

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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
George Bernard Shaw

40.
I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

41.
... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.
Henry James

42.
Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.
Cassandra Clare

43.
It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.
Rupert Hart-Davis

44.
Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
Elizabeth Gaskell

45.
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.
Joyce Carol Oates

46.
Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
Catherynne M. Valente

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We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas

48.
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.
Francis Bacon

49.
You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them. -Drustan to Gwen
Karen Marie Moning

50.
There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.
Carole Nelson Douglas