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• Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Book, Humble, Writing

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• The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Years, Balance, Golden

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Pages From An Old Volume Of Life”, p.162, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Con su lenguaje especial y provocador, Tonya Bolden da voz a los sin voz, un nombre a los sin nombre. Abundan las revelaciones en Strong Men Keep Coming (Los hombres fuertes siguen viniendo), su singular visión del interminable desfile de hombres negros que han luchado, cantado, engatusado, engañado, trabajado, escrito, o se han abierto camino en la experiencia americana. Ha reunido un elenco de lo más gratificante, una fenomenal camarilla de modelos de conducta y fantasmas, y ha hecho un espléndido trabajo al contar sus historias.

  Herb Boyd

  Fuerte, Trabajo, Hombres

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• La magnificencia es también fuente de lo sublime. Una gran profusión de cosas que son espléndidas o valiosas en sí mismas es magnífica. El cielo estrellado, a pesar de que se presenta tan frecuentemente a nuestra vista, nunca deja de excitar una idea de grandeza.

  Edmund Burke

  Estrellas, vistas, ideas

  Edmund Burke (1824). "A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", p.78

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• La
  La forma más elevada de éxito es la del hombre que no rehúye el peligro
  del peligro, de las penurias o del amargo trabajo, y que, de todo ello, obtiene
  el espléndido triunfo final.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Winning, Men, Triumph

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. If this definition is just, the British constitution is nothing more or less than a republic, in which the king is first magistrate. This office being hereditary, and being possessed of such ample and splendid prerogatives, is no objection to the government's being a republic, as long as it is bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend.

  John Adams

  Kings, Men, Voice

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Los senderos son relativamente baratos. Se puede establecer una espléndida red nacional de todo tipo de senderos con un coste inferior al de unos cientos de kilómetros de superautopista.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Cost, Kind, Hundred

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• As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Men, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Rome, Attention

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1169, Delphi Classics

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• El Credo de Atanasio es la más espléndida lírica eclesiástica jamás vertida por el genio del hombre.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Doctrine, Genius

  Benjamin Disraeli (1904). “Endymion”

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• Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

  Aberjhani

  Shadow, Rebirth, Angelic

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Rome, Barbarians

  Edward Gibbon (2013). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)”, p.894, Modern Library

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• It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, Taken, Heart

  Isak Dinesen (1938). "Memorias de África"

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• Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Wife, Mistress, Literature

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• No quiero predicar la doctrina de la innoble comodidad, sino la doctrina de la vida extenuante; la vida del trabajo y del esfuerzo; del trabajo y de la lucha; predicar esa forma suprema de éxito que no corresponde al hombre que desea la mera paz fácil, sino al hombre que no rehúye el peligro, la dificultad o el amargo trabajo, y que de todo ello obtiene el espléndido triunfo final. Una vida de innoble comodidad, una vida de esa paz que surge meramente de la falta de deseo o de poder para luchar por grandes cosas, es tan poco digna de una nación como de un individuo.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spring, Winning, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

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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.

  Harold Evans

  People, Information, News

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Es maravilloso tener grandes ambiciones y sueños espléndidos, siempre y cuando estas ambiciones y sueños sean también maravillosos para la humanidad.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sueño, Ambición, Largo

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• Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

  Gene Weingarten

  Fuente: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.

  William Henry Hudson

  Nature, Flower, Ivy

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist”

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• Parafraseado: Cuando Chuang Tzu estaba a punto de morir, sus discípulos empezaron a planear un espléndido funeral. Sin embargo, algunos discípulos expresaron su preocupación por el hecho de que, dada una disposición particular, los pájaros y los milanos se comerían sus restos. Chuang Tzu replicó: "Bueno, por encima de la tierra me comerán los cuervos y los milanos, y por debajo, las hormigas y los gusanos. ¿Qué tienes contra los pájaros?

  Zhuangzi

  Funeral, Pájaro, Cuervo

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• We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Poetry, Age, Genius

  "On Milton" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1825.

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• To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

  Jessie Willcox Smith

  Children, Men, Careers

  Catherine Connell Stryker, Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, Violet Oakley (1976). “The Studios at Cogslea: Delaware Art Museum, February 20-March 28, 1976”

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• By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

  Lord Byron

  Brother, Sight, Heaven

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Sleep, Men, Dust

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• Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

  Julio Verne

  Flower, Sea, Soul

  Jules Verne (2003). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.312, Bantam Classics

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