Gems Quotes - Page 5

• Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Wish, Proud

  Mark Twain (1994). “Mark Twain on the damned human race”

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• Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information.
  
  Ten thousand reflections
  hide the true gem.
  
  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reflection, People, Peaceful

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• Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Calendars, Virtue, Equanimity

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.64

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• Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.

  Belle Starr

  Sympathy, Regret, Lying

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• People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim

  Arfa Karim

  Inspirational, Girl, Boys

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• Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

  Noah Webster

  Honor, Excellence, Female

  Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.140

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• Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Cracks, Nuisance

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

  Jeff Pearlman

  Book, Writing, Men

  Source: lombardiave.com

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• No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
  No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
  Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
  Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
  Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Beauty, Stars, Night

  Erasmus Darwin (1806). “Containing the loves of the plants”, p.165

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• What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

  Laozi

  Life, Humility, Men

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• What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Nature, Stars

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.59

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• Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true Philosopher's Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart, The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Prayer, Lying

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• Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.

  William Hamilton Gibson

  Fall, Winter, Snow

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• Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  William Blake

  Eye, Science, Blow

  'MS Note-Book' p. 7

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• I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Lakes, Dust

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• Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

  Charles Lamb

  Flower, Sea, Wish

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• Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Fall, Heart, Men

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• If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade a precious gem for a cheap trinket.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Missing, Gone

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• On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

  Hafez

  Men, Necks, Sparkle

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• I have so many [on-set Glee BFFs]. I love Kevin (McHale). I love Amber (Riley); Amber and I are essentially the same person, even though one’s fiercer than the other—don’t tell her it’s me. I love Chris Colfer, he’s a gem. Melissa (Benoist) and Blake (Jenner), I love them. We’re such a tight-knight family because we spend so much time together.

  Alex Newell

  Bff, Knights, Together

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• There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.

  Robert Bridges

  Brilliant, Hills, Silver

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fighting, Men, Suffering

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.256, Faber & Faber

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• Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.

  Alan Cohen

  Laughter, Healing, Dark

  Alan Cohen (1987). “Healing of the Planet Earth: Personal Power and Planetary Transformation”, Dolphin Communications Co

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• It's so unique. Wilson Park is just such a gem. It's in a convenient location.

  David Wright

  Unique, Parks, Location

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• Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths. How many millions of dazzling pearls and gems are at this moment hid in the deep recesses of the ocean caves.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Ocean, Grace, Depth

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.236

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