Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Time Quotes, Jewels Quotes

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

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I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

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A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

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The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

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A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

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O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

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She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

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Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

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Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

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My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

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It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

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