Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Shining Quotes

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

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How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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These are great days.

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.

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Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

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Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.

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Who you are, what you are, does not change after you occupy the oval office. All it does is magnify who you are. All it does is shine a spotlight on who you are.

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I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

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Those who show off do not shine.

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Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

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I found Him in the shining of the stars.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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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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