Sublime

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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural
One source of the sublime is infinity
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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