“ Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. ”
- Edward F. Halifax- Copy
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“ A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way. ”
- Marcelene Cox- 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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“ Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts. ”
- Ellen Gould White- Copy
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“ An evil name — a drawback at first — sheds luster on old age. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment…A man should learn to detect and foster that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within far more than the luster of the whole firmament without… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 463
“ Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. ”
- Andre Breton- Copy
- 555
“ The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment — but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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