The glorious sun
Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
Turning with splendor of his precious eye
The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold. [ William Shakespeare ]
Mighty Nature bounds as from her birth,
The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth;
Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. [ Byron ]
The buttercups across the field made sunshine rifts of splendor. [ Miss Mulock ]
Character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Floral apostles! that in dewy splendor weep without woe, and blush without a crime. [ Horace Smith ]
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. [ F. Osborn ]
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will conceal and cover up what is now shining with the greatest splendor. [ Horace ]
Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation, are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendor of the sun. [ Napoleon I ]
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal? [ Milton ]
The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary. [ F. A. Durivage ]
The exhaustion of taste, genius, and splendor upon its fables and ceremonies, even to our times, constitute the ancient paganism a marvel of all that was attractive and magnificent. [ R. W. Hamilton ]
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray. [ Willmott ]
What delight will it afford to renew the sweet counsel we have taken together, to recount the toils, the combats, and the labor of the way, and to approach, not the house, but the throne of God, in company, in order to join in the symphonies of heavenly voices, and lose ourselves amidst the splendor and fruitions of the beatific vision. [ Robert Hall ]
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanketmaking and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. [ Ruskin ]