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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.»
«The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?»
Author: Pablo Casals
(Cellist, Conductor)
| About:
Love,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
border, bordered, bordering, border on, One Country, splendid, The Border
«These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.»
Author: Pedro Calderon de la Barca
| Keywords:
frivolity, pitiful, sleeping, splendid, sprightlier, sprightly, waking
«We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us, loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe, yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!»
Author: Queen Victoria
| Keywords:
Another World, birthday, brighter, earthly, granite, praying, robe, sarcophagus, splendid, tenderly, woe, wreath, wreaths
«The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
| About:
University
| Keywords:
corruption, cruelties, delicate, mixed, splendid, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Eternal, the University, university
«Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.»
Author: William Hutchinson Murray
| Keywords:
Acts, assistance, as if by magic, at issue, back, Begin, boldness, can-do, chance, come, commits, committed, concerning, could, countless, Creation, decision, definitely, draw, drawing power, draw back, draw in, draw up, dream, dreamed, elementary, events, favor, favoring, from the, genius, help, help oneself, hesitancy, How to draw, ideas, ignorance, incident, incidents, ineffectiveness, initiative, initiatives, in any event, issues, issuing, i drew, kills, magic, manner, material, meetings, moment, moment of truth, moves, move back, move into, Move Me, move out, move over, move up, moving in, now, No Man, occur, occurred, occurring, oneself, One Power, on the move, otherwise, plans, power, providence, raising, sorted, sorting, sorts, sort out, splendid, stream, streaming, take issue, The Incident, The Initiative, The Move, The Whole Man, Truth The, unforeseen, whatever, whole, with boldness
«The American backwoodsman -- clad in his hunting shirt, the product of his domestic industry, and fighting for the country he loves, he is more than a match for the vile but splendid mercenary of a European despot.»
«The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
achievement, approval, constant, of your own, splendid, striving, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, with approval, worthy
«The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world; And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
| Keywords:
Chaos, discontent, discontents, Of Man, progress, splendid, springs