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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. -- Emily Carr
To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence. -- Alexander Pope
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. -- Annie Leibovitz
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. -- Richard J. Needham
The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. -- George Leigh Mallory
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. -- George Sand
When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to be controlled. -- Anita Moorjani
I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence. -- George Saunders
Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. -- Edmund Burke
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language. -- John C. Hawkes
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow. -- Diana Vreeland
The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence. -- Alan Cohen
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. -- Bill Vaughan
If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe. -- Nikola Tesla
Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them. -- John Haines
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves. -- Charles Williams
There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life. -- Marianne Williamson
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic. -- Samuel Johnson
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. -- Richard Baker
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. -- Richard Baker
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. -- Helen Keller
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. -- Alan Watts
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? -- James Thomson
The fall couture presentations in Paris are usually my favorite moment on the fashion calendar: beautiful weather, a busy rather than manic schedule, and, let's face it, seeing the artistry, the embroidery, and handmade magnificence that goes into every dress. -- Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge. -- Carl Sagan
Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us. -- Albert Hofmann
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being. -- Alex Grey
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life. -- Lincoln Steffens
Her magnificence is deeper than skin. -- Delano Johnson
The time to embrace your magnificence is now. -- Rhonda Byrne
Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence. -- George Bellows
The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being. -- Samael Aun Weor
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence. -- Philip Sidney
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. -- Teresa of Avila
There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence... -- Socrates
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language. -- John C. Hawkes
When you realize your own magnificence, you will only attract magnificence into your life. -- Anita Moorjani
We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. -- Alan Cohen
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle. -- Joe Paterno
Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen. -- John Bertram Phillips
Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love. -- Rumi
You have two choices: To live an unconscious life, or to be conscious of your magnificence... -- Cloris Kylie
Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence. -- Judith Orloff
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence. -- William Shenstone
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. -- Pope John Paul II
With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness. -- Thomas Chalmers
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust? -- Conrad Aiken
Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe. -- Don Campbell
I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present. -- Steve Maraboli
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ. -- John Piper
No matter who you are, no matter how difficult things might appear to be, you are always being moved towards magnificence. Always. -- Rhonda Byrne
Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence. -- Cherie Carter-Scott
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. -- Carl Sagan
We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important. -- Martin Fry
If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence. -- Margaret Halsey
When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away... you void your fears via your realization of your own self-worth. -- Lee Carroll
Playground of Dreams supports kids in discovering and achieving their own magnificence, that unique quality that only they have, fostering it, watering it, and watching it sprout! -- Dash Mihok
It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee. -- Cynthia Lewis
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle. -- Henry Ward Beecher
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day. -- Sophie Swetchine
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten. -- A. J. Liebling
There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good. You would deny me the practice of it. Mierda! I should have left you on the comet. -- Julian May
I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer. -- Rumi
Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars. -- D. H. Lawrence
As the world becomes more environmentally aware, I believe that we must as individuals recognize the magnificence of our natural world, and feel a sense of accountability for our actions which affect it. -- Bob Irwin
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. -- Alan Watts
Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets. -- Don Campbell
We say that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed... Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest and loveliest groves of redwoods, showing insensitivity to their magnificence. -- Ronald Reagan

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