"Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful."
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"I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime."
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"A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities."
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"Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it."
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"What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half."
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"Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world."
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"The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar."
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"Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]"
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"My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church."
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"Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous."
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"The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow."
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"You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life."
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"In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential."
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"[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth."
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"Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime."
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"The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether."
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"As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power."
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"Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time."
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"There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime."
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"Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over."
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