"Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon."
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"Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace."
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
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"I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own."
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
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"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel."
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"We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time."
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"Qigong is a jewel that has many facets."
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"Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it."
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"There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman."
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"Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls."
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"I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels."
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"Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond."
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"[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone."
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"If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit."
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"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation."
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"If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive."
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"What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!"
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"Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule."
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"Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds."
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