"Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause."
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"But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you."
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"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before."
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"She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat."
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"Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds."
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"I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows."
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"If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?"
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"There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine."
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"The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it."
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"But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you."
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"That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?"
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"Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere."
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"Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared."
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"It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils."
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