Splendid Quotes
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
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We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.
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I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.
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Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
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It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.
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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
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I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
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There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
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Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.
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Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
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It is splendid - to be - loved! If we only - can - live up - to the thoughts - of us - by them - that love us!
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Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.
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We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.
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It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.
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By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.
