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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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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.
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'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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In general, it is not very difficult for little minds to attain splendid situations. It is much more difficult for great minds to attain the place to which their merit fully entitles them.
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
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