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• How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Beautiful, Modesty, Virtue

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• There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

  Pliny the Elder

  Sea, Purple, Oil

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• There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
  There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
  O traveller, if you are in search of that
  Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.

  Rumi

  Journey, Hiking, Soul

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “There Is A Life-Force Within Your Soul”

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• There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eternity, Ageless, Eternal

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• Let me break it down for you again,
  You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine:
  Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

  Lauryn Hill

  Rap, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Song: Doo Wop

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• Some gems for the greatest of them all

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing

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• In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Age

  Song: Dirge, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Perseverance, Jobs, Writing

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• Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Flower, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Mar 30, 2016

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• There is another language beyond language,
  another place beyond heaven and hell.
  Precious gems come from another mine,
  the heart draws light from another source.

  Rumi

  Heart, Light, Heaven

  Rumi (2012). “Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit”, p.183, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

  Amber Valletta

  Hurt, Believe, Trends

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• Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewels, Jewelry, Moments

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• In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.

  Jim Carrey

  Work Out, Disaster

  Source: movies.about.com

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• The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Moon, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

  Walter Pater

  Life, Congratulations, Flames

  Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Conclusion" (1873)

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• Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Inspiring, Jewels, Mind

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• Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

  Thomas Gray

  Ocean, Dark, Rays

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 53 (1751)

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• A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Sweet, Kissing, Men

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• Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
  To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,
  And sweet as Flora. Take no care
  For jewels for your gown or hair
  Fear not; the leaves will strew
  Gems in abundance upon you
  Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
  Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
  Come, and receive them while the light
  Hangs on the dew-locks of the night
  And Titan on the eastern hill
  Retires himself, or else stands still
  Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying
  Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Spring, Night

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

  George Meredith

  Casts, Picks

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.73

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• I'm just very much in love with love. I have this fairy-tale idea of what love should be, and I want it to be magical. I want everything in my life to be magical, actually. If you ever come to my house, you'll see what I mean. I've made it like a fairyland. Flowers and hearts everywhere, and there's colors and little gems hanging from the windows. I just like things to be magical if they can be, and in love there's your opportunity. I think that's how it should be, and if it's not like that, then, "Nah. Don't want it".

  Joss Stone

  Flower, Heart, Mean

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• Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

  Lord Byron

  Depth, World, Truth Is

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• Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Night, Jewels

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.261

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• I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

  Terri Windling

  Average, Might, Reader

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• Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the gentler fire of the ruby, there is the rich purple of the amethyst, there is the sea-green of the emerald, and all shining together in an indescribable union. Others, by an excessive heightening of their hues equal all the colours of the painter, others the flame of burning brimstone, or of a fire quickened by oil.

  Pliny the Elder

  Purple, Oil, Fire

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