"Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines."
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"Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow."
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"Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy."
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"Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining."
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"In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends."
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"We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them."
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"The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity."
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"... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it."
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"When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life."
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"[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other."
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"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."
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"As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet."
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"Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days, but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze."
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"I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through."
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"The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins"
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"You act like a normal human being and you treat them [actors around] like a buddy because you're all working together. It's no different than being Governor. You put a team together and say, "Guys, we all want to shine here. We all want to show that this administration is going to do things that other administrations have thought was impossible. Let's kick some ass together.""
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"The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that."
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"The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition."
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"I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities."
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"in black ink my love may still shine bright."
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