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• Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss Lavinia had speculated much on the probabilities and improbabilities of her coming in this gorgeous state, and, on beholding the chariot from the window at which they were secreted to look out for it, agreed that it must be detained at the door as long as possible, for the mortification and confusion of the neighbours.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Home

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Pride, Government, Cities

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• A grandes rasgos, podríamos definir a un excéntrico como un hombre que es una ley para sí mismo, y a un chiflado como alguien que, habiendo determinado cuál es la ley, insiste en imponérsela a los demás. Un excéntrico le pone helado al filete simplemente porque le gusta; si lo hiciera un chiflado, dotaría al acto de grandeza moral y denunciaría inmediatamente como pecadores (o reaccionarios) a todos los que no siguieran su ejemplo. Los chiflados, en su forma más familiar, son una especie de profetas malhumorados, y no basta con que ellos tengan razón; los demás también deben estar equivocados.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Hombres, Helados, Derecho

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Libro de Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

  Omar Khayyam

  Drinking, Sleep, Heaven

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• Sentaos sultánicamente entre las lunas de Saturno, y tomad al alto hombre abstraído solo; y os parecerá una maravilla, una grandeza y una desdicha. Pero desde ese mismo punto, toma a la humanidad en masa, y en su mayor parte, parece una turba de duplicados innecesarios, tanto contemporáneos como hereditarios.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Moon, Saturn

  Herman Melville (2016). "Moby-Dick: O, la ballena", p.373, Cosimo, Inc.

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• La grandeza de una filosofía no certifica su verdad.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.

  Horace Walpole

  Age, Might, Purity

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• Un análisis minucioso de la vida destruye enseguida ese esplendor que deslumbra a la imaginación. Todo lo que la grandeza puede exhibir, o el lujo disfrutar, se obtiene mediante oficios cuya contemplación la mente rehúye. Todos los manjares de la mesa se remontan a los tugurios y al estercolero; toda la magnificencia de la construcción se labró en la cantera, y toda la pompa del ornamento se extrajo de entre los pantanos y la oscuridad de la mina.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Luxury, Imagination

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). "Las bellezas de Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd"

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• In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.

  Marguerite Duras

  Men, Impossible, Affair

  Marguerite Duras (1993). "Practicalities", p.35, Grove Press

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• The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Sadness, Garden, Views

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• It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.

  Teresa de Lisieux

  Prayer, Father, Two

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• Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Selfish, Sensual, Honor

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• All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Fate, Political, Politics

  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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• The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything.

  Dorothy Maclean

  Keys, Knowing, Joy

  Dorothy MacLean (1998). “Choices of Love”, p.41, SteinerBooks

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• An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Winning, Men

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• I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians.

  Gordon T. Smith

  Brother, Powerful, Reading

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• Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

  Marya Mannes

  Grace, Infinite, Great Music

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• Los mitos enganchan y atan la mente porque al mismo tiempo la liberan: explican el universo al tiempo que permiten que el universo siga sin explicarse; y parece que lo necesitamos incluso ahora, en nuestra grandeza del siglo XX.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mente, Necesidades, Gancho

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• The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Foundation, Titles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). "Observaciones sobre los talentos de Lord Byron y las tendencias de Don Juan".

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• It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Sacrificio, Hombres, Yo

  Thomas De Quincey (1854). “De Quincey's works”, p.125

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• [T]he liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.

  John Adams

  Art, Freedom, Men

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.440

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• En los albores de la historia, la India emprendió su interminable búsqueda, y siglos sin fin están llenos de sus esfuerzos y de la grandeza de sus éxitos y sus fracasos. A través de la buena y la mala fortuna, nunca ha perdido de vista esa búsqueda ni ha olvidado los ideales que le dieron fuerza.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Vista, Independencia, Amanecer

  Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). "Discursos importantes: recopilación de los discursos más significativos pronunciados entre 1922 y 1951".

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• It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

  Madame de Stael

  Sympathy, Art, Dear Ones

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• I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ... and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger.

  Estwick Evans

  Men, Views, Civilization

  Estwick Evans (2007). “Evans's Pedestrious Tour”, p.102, Applewood Books

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• Levanté el paño blanco del rostro blanco del hombre al que había adorado como a un ídolo, al que consideraba un semidiós. A pesar de la violencia de la muerte del Presidente, había algo hermoso y solemne en la expresión de su plácido rostro. En él se escondían la dulzura y la delicadeza de la infancia y la majestuosa grandeza de un intelecto divino. Contemplé largamente el rostro y me volví con lágrimas en los ojos y una sensación de ahogo en la garganta. Nunca se había llorado tanto a un hombre. El mundo entero inclinó la cabeza en señal de dolor cuando murió Abraham Lincoln.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Hermoso, Dolor, Ojo

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