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• I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Success, Air, Hands

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• Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Teaching, Certain

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• Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Blessing, Whales

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• Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Perfect, Stones, Flawed

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• In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Beautiful, Nature, Children

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.161

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• His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.

  Tammara Webber

  Eye, Sound, Ears

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• All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements.

  Vashti Bunyan

  Song, Writing, Issues

  Interview with Matthew Murphy, pitchfork.com. October 23, 2005.

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• Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

  Stephen King

  Giving, Forever

  Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (2005). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, Scribner Book Company

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• I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one. Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

  Bo Lozoff

  Spiritual, Eye, Practice

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• Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Life, Family

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.

  Virginia Woolf

  Horse, Moving, Fall

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.109, Virginia Woolf

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• There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Acres, Problem

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• And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

  Diane Setterfield

  Art, Book, Hard Times

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Thinking, Excited

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.

  Jeannette Walls

  Running, People, Watches

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life, Matter, Painting

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• To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

  Dennis Merzel

  Acceptance, Realization, Accepting

  Dennis Genpo Merzel (2005). “The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Love, Beautiful, Poison

  Jens Peter Jacobsen (1917). “Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century”

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• Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

  Charles Simonyi

  Real, Opposites, Today

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• I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Cute, Workout, Wake Up

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• [On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend.

  Yvonne Zipter

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Beautiful, Light, Cities

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• I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

  Djimon Hounsou

  People, Way, Company

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I realised life is so short and precious, you should do things that make you feel inspired, that push you and teach you something. I'd rather not have a big house, a huge closet of clothes, diamonds and a private plane, and instead a body of work that I'm proud of.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Clothes, House, Body

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.

  Vinnie Jones

  Ears, Studs

  "What I see in the mirror" by Vinnie Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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