“ Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ”
- Ruth E. Renkel- Copy
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“ Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! - King Henry V. Prologue. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em. ”
- Thomas Otway- Copy
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“ Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. ”
- Isaac Watts- Copy
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“ We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. ”
- Anton Chekhov- Copy
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“ We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining — they just shine. ”
- Dwight L. Moody- Copy
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“ Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud Is bright and shining: I therefore turn my clouds about And always wear them inside out To show the lining. ”
- Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler- Copy
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“ Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save: they just stand there, shining. ”
- Anne Lamott- Copy
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“ Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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“ There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
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“ The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. ”
- King Solomon- Copy
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“ Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining armor has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure. ”
- Robert A. Cook- Copy
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“ Washington — a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ When I am dead,and over me bright AprilShakes out her rain-drenched hair,Tho you should lean aboveme broken hearted,I shall not care. ”
- Sara Teasdale- Copy
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“ Tell all the Truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surprise. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own. ”
- Eliza M. Hickok- Copy
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“ Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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