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"There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step." »Napoleon
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"Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea." »Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"My object all sublime I shall achieve in time..." »W. S. Gilbert
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"One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick." »Rabbi Harold Kushner
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"One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick." »Rabbi Harold Kushner
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"Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time." »Johann von Goethe
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"No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it, which is always a source of pleasure to sensible people." »Wieland
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"While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art." »Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." »Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." »Socrates
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"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed." »William John Bennett
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"Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, Each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigur'd, or deprav'd,- All art, is at its resurrection sav'd All crown'd with glory in the critic's heav'n, Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven." »Sir Martin Archer Shee
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"No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics." »Gregory Benford - Timescape
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