#sublime

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#around #boxer #confidence #dance #dreams

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#grotesque #means #nature #offer #our

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#giving #his #someone #sublime #us

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#sublimest #things #truth #world

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#cherish #faith #human #imbecility #led

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#ear #ever #fifth #into #man

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#courage #deeply #enchanting #go #into

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#enemy #enjoyment #forgive #his #love

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#cannot #duty #language #less #more