"How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!"
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"The sun will shine in my back door one day."
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"Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object."
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"If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth."
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"I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal."
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"Stars can't shine without darkness."
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"The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring."
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"The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum."
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"The main message of this movie [Let It Shine] that everyone will take away is to believe in yourself."
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"The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself."
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"Then all this earth shines like one house."
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"There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby."
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"The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised, cut off, and destroyed - but these do not destroy our religion, our national life, our spirituality. Every principle of religion is safe, and the sooner these black spots are purged away, the better the principles will shine, the more gloriously. Stick to them."
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"Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever."
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"If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything."
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"Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment."
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"He (the Sage) does not show off, therefore he shines."
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"I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision."
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"And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started."
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"Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it"
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