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"What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen."
"I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere."
"Hang a shining star upon the highest bough."
"May Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion. And may I be able to awaken Thy love in all hearts."
"I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger."
"The sun shines on everybody. Youve got to keep believing."
"You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again."
"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."
"He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first."
"Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it."
"Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting."
"Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God"
"When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world."
"And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?"
"For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark."
"It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing."
"In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self."
"He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism."
"Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within the Infinite and shines pure, luminous and fulfilling.... Of that which is in mortal in mortals, and possessed of the truth, is a God and established inwardly as an energy working out in our divine powers.... Become high uplifted, O Strength, pierce all veils, manifest in as the things of the Godhead."
"The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat."
