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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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