#sublimity

Sublimity is the echo of great mind. ↗

— Longinus

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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. ↗

— Fisher Ames

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