Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness."
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Splendid
55 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ansel Adams
Photographer
"Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price."
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form."
Khaled Hosseini
Author, Physician
"A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated."
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"The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it."
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"I like to be surrounded by splendid things."
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"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."
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"What a splendid head, yet no brain."
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"Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either."
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"Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject."
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"'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."
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"Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway."
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"I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!"
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"There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done."
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"The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe."
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"His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid."
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"The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God."
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"Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less."
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"For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike."
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"Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!"
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"The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them."
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"... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate."
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"We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music."
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"Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling."
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