Mere light is too common a thing to make a strong impression on the mind, and without a strong impression nothing can be sublime.
 Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). copy citation

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Author Edmund Burke
Source A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Topic light impression
Date 1757
Language English
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