The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling nor more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is... Gracefully: Looking and Being Your Best at Any Age - Page 208by Valerie Ramsey, Heather Hummel - 2008 - 304 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| 1863 - 804 pages
...awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is noe spectacle grander than the »ea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul." And this spectacle, as revealed in the psychological condition of M. Madeleine, we are permitted to... | |
| Victor Hugo - Ex-convicts - 1863 - 824 pages
...itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There ie one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky...grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. To write the poem of the" human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it onry-of the most... | |
| Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 476 pages
...certain moments uplifts. It is the only bird which sustains its cage." Victor Hugo, Marius, 71. — "There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that...grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul : " Ib., Fantine, 11o. — " To Jews and Gentiles, (in the time of Chrisi), the soul in its real greatness... | |
| Henry J. Fox - Commonplace-books - 1876 - 478 pages
...certain moments uplifts. It is the only bird which sustains its cage," Victor Hugo, Marius, 71. — "There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that...grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul : " Ib., Fantine, 11o. — " To Jews and Gentiles, (in the time of Chrisl), the soul in its real greatness,... | |
| Victor Hugo - 1884 - 832 pages
...it can fix itself npon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky ; there is one spectacle grander lhan the sky, that is the interior of the soul. To write the poem of the human conscience, were it... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1918 - 494 pages
...religious faith and the whole complex of social institutions. It is no wonder that Victor Hugo exclaimed: "There is one spectacle grander than the sea — that...than the sky — that is the interior of the soul." But the soul's interior is bodied forth and rendered visible by the objective materials of culture... | |
| Willis Duff Piercy - Inventions - 1911 - 218 pages
...insignificance of man compared with the infinitude of the heavens. Victor Hugo expresses the opposite thought: "There is one spectacle grander than the sea — that...than the sky — that is the interior of the soul." There is nothing more dignified, more sublime, more awful, than a contemplation of the heavens. In... | |
| Abel Leighton Allen - New Thought - 1914 - 306 pages
...that around it and beyond it lie outstretched the infinite and everlasting paths." Victor Hugo says: "There is one spectacle grander than the sea; that...grander than the sky; that is the interior of the soul." Each of us is a symbol of God, an epitome of the universe. As the old knight said, "Let the universe... | |
| Jeffrey M. Solomon - Self-Help - 2003 - 438 pages
...is good nor bad Thinking makes it so " - William Shakespeare (English playwright) The Truth Unfolded There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that...grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul I 'ictor Hugo (French poet) Everything I experience is simply an illusion! If at first this idea appears... | |
| J. Edward Lee, Ron Chepesiuk - History - 2004 - 196 pages
...it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that...grander than the sky, that is the interior of the Soul. Penetrate it when he reflects, look at what is behind, look at that obscurity. There are combats of... | |
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