#splendid

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ↗

— Pablo Casals

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"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. ↗

— Bruce Grocott

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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. ↗

— Phaedrus

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