Rubies Quotes

• You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

  Rumi

  Journey, Light, Needs

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• And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Sky, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

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• If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

  Bob Dylan

  Peace, Special, Crowns

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Night, Cells

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• Good advice is rarer than rubies.

  Salman Rushdie

  Advice, Good Advice

  Salman Rushdie (2014). “East, West: Stories”, p.159, Vintage

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• Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Strong, Self

  "Love is a Stranger".

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• There’s nothing left of me.
  I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
  Is it still a stone, or a world
  made of redness? It has no resistance
  to sunlight.

  Rumi

  Sunrise, World, Stones

  "Head and Heart: A Personal Exploration of Science and the Sacred". Book by Victor Mansfield, 2002.

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• Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, Golf, Sea

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Bathe in the splendor of your own Light.

  Rumi

  Light, Splendor

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• Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.

  Rumi

  Running, Pain, Grief

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• Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

  Josef Albers

  Depth, Pebbles, Easy

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• There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

  Virginia Woolf

  Shining, Fleeting, Coherence

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.322, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Ambition, Liquid, Stains

  Samuel R. Delany (1978). “Babel-17”

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• When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose.

  Nathalia Crane

  Years, Rose, Waiting

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

  Gregory Maguire

  Mirrors, Blood, Looks

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• Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

  Thomas Moore

  Spring, Autumn, Vineyards

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• After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Sunset, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Hanging of the Crane”, p.43

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• Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her.

  Solomon

  Men, Hands, Understanding

  "Proverbs". 3:13-15,

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• I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.

  Meat Loaf

  Rocks, Expression, Mountain

  Song: Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

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• Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

  Ellen Kushner

  Morning, Cutting, Winter

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• And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Heart, Wine

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.154, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

  Robert Herrick

  Lips, Jewelry, Grew

  Robert Herrick, J. N., John NOTT (M.D., of Bristol.) (1810). “Select Poems from the Hesperides, ... with ... remarks by J. N[ott], etc”, p.13

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• Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

  Freya Stark

  Good Day, Wine, Fire

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.147, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

  Plautus

  Beauty, Character, Jewels

  "Plautus: The little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The rope".

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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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