#splendid

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Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.


Freddie Mercury


#i #just #name #obviously #queen

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.


John George Nicolay


#careers #distinguished #fame #first #genius

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


James Cash Penney


#practice #put #splendid #theory #until

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


Phaedrus


#brain #gilded #outward #show #splendid

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.


John Lothrop Motley


#empire #erected #fifth #grave #liberty

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.


Origen


#became #been #clearly #fathers #him

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.


Edna Ferber


#becoming #been #cut #even #fit

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.


John Maynard Keynes


#could #economists #get #humble #level

There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.


John Buford


#carry #determined #division #each #fighting

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.


Rudolf Otto


#breaking #completely #deep #different #justice