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• Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

  Johnny Depp

  Sailing, Black, Nautical

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• Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles, loss of virility, and bed-wetting ... Though nobody seems to advertise the potential for pearls to cure bed-wetting anymore.

  Victoria Finlay

  Eye, Loss, Insomnia

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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• Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:
  Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• Within the oyster's shell uncouth
  The purest pearl may hide,
  Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
  Within that rough outside.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Heart, Oysters, May

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• Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Home, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

  John Bunyan

  Oysters, Shells, Toads

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.125, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

  Glen Campbell

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

  Song: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, 2003

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• Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

  John Dryden

  Gratitude, Grateful, Errors

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• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Learning, Men

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.135

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• Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

  Gertrude Stein

  Girl, Men, Literature

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• These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

  James Russell Lowell

  Moon, Bed, Persian

  'In a Copy of Omar Khayy m'

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• Full fathom five thy father lies;
  Of his bones are coral made;
  Those are pearls that were his eyes;
  Nothing of him that doth fade,
  But doth suffer a sea-change
  Into something rich and strange.
  Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
  Ding-dong.
  Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Father, Eye

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

  Joseph Hall

  Sea, Earth, Stones

  Joseph Hall (1860). “Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments”, p.65

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• We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.

  George Pope Morris

  Ocean, Swim, Depth

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• On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Beautiful, Wish, Together

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Jewels, Opal, Milk

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.55, Library of America

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• I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Criticism, Nuggets, Poet

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for all to emulate. In the very struggle to be like someone else rather than to be one's own true self, or to do one's own best in one's own environment, a child is in danger of losing the pearl that is really beyond price - the integrity of his (or her) own soul.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  Jesus, Children, Integrity

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• If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

  Ramakrishna

  Healing, Sea, Doe

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• No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Philosophy, Self

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• I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.

  Bobby Fischer

  Couple, Airplane, Japan

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July 6, 2001.

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• Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Creative, Mind

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• Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Doe, Form, Hardened

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• Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Gold, Sand, Mines

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• cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Hard Life, World

  Song: I Like It Rough, 2008

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