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"The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem."
"Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light."
"Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots."
"In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered."
"I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel"
"But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects."
"The clock upbraids me with the waste of time."
"She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold."
"My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors."
"I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools."
"Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!"
"When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge."
"The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence."
"And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels."
"We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip."
"A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others."
"I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe."
"A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!"
"It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel."
"A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch."
