"Prose is like hair; it shines with combing."
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"My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth."
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"For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?"
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"Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines."
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"Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine."
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"God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise."
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"Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them."
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"You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way."
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"Those who show off do not shine."
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"This is a shining example of never quit, never give up, & never say never. I proved everyone wrong."
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"New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation."
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"Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells."
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"Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us."
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"He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to."
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."
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"The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it."
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"As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through."
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"Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right."
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"A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect."
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"Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth; from self-assertion, therefore he is distinguished; from self-glorification, therefore he has merit; from self-exaltation, therefore he rises superior to all. Inasmuch as he does not strive, there is no one in the world who can strive with him."
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