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• Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an approving conscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, and a brighter inheritance his Father's house.

  Richard Mant

  Christian, Wise, Father

  Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) (1838). “The Church and her ministrations: discourses”, p.286

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• Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sight, Dragons, Eagles

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• Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.

  Lily Collins

  Shining, Mysterious Ways, Knows

  FaceBook post by Lily Collins from May 27, 2015

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• Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.

  Catharine Beecher

  Food, America, Sky

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.190, Applewood Books

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• O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

  Henry Fielding

  Art, Powerful, Eye

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1596, Delphi Classics

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• People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.

  Vance Havner

  Dark, Thinking, People

  Vance Havner (1986). “The best of Vance Havner”

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• Brighter than Parian marble.

  Horace

  Marble

  Horace (1843). “The Odes of Horace, Translated by J. Scriven”, p.37

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• Oh, Constellations of the early night
  That sparkled brighter as the twilight died,
  And made the darkness glorious! I have seen
  Your rays grow dim upon the horizon's edge
  And sink behind the mountains. I have seen
  The great Orion, with his jewelled belt,
  That large-limbed warrior of the skies, go down
  Into the gloom. Beside him sank a crowd
  Of shining ones.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Twilight, Warrior

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Constellations”

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• You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.

  Coco Chanel

  Health, Light, Nightlife

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• Nosegays! leave them for the waking,
  Throw them earthward where they grew
  Dim are such, beside the breaking
  Amaranths he looks unto.
  Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Color, Looks

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.256

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• Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.
  [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Grief, Adversity

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• An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Heaven, Religion

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.248

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• No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Real, Perfect, Crucible

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• At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None but those who experience it can know what it is - this constant, galling sense of cruel injustice and wrong. I cannot help feeling it very often, - it intrudes upon my happiest moments, and spreads a dark, deep gloom over everything.

  Charlotte Forten Grimke

  Dark, Racism, Feelings

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• Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Stupid, Firefly, Men

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• Though youth be past, and beauty fled,
  The constant heart its pledge redeems,
  Like box, that guards the flowerless bed
  And brighter from the contrast seems.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Heart, Past, Bed

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.82

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• The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.

  Anne Bronte

  Children, Heart, Blow

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• In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Bridges, Space

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.47, Bantam

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• If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

  Frances Harper

  Hope, Past, Promise

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.124, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• World is brighter with the happiness of children.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Children, World

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• When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Country, Leader

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• If everyone spent as much time o happiness as they did on drama and anger, they'd shine a lot brighter!

  Jeffree Star

  Drama, Shining, Ifs

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• No color will ever be brighter for me than black and white.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Black And White, Color, White

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• Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

  Anton Chekhov

  Sweet, Childhood, Forever

  "The Bishop". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1902.

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• Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

  Jan Smuts

  People, Defeat, Brighter Days

  1902 Speech at the Vereeniging peace talks, 31 May.

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