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"O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread."
"Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre."
"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do."
"It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!"
"Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern."
"Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it."
"There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind."
"The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays."
"Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all."
"In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!"
"Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!"
"Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new."
"Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain."
"For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that."
"Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes?"
"This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain."
"I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well."
"And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold."
"Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?"
"I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly." Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother."
