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Adversity is the diamond dust
Heaven polishes its jewels with. |
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- Thomas Carlyle |
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Proverbs are mental gems
gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. |
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- William R. Alger |
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Colleges are places where
pebbles are polished and diamonds are
dimmed. |
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- Robert Green Ingersoll |
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Invest in the human soul. Who
knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. |
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- Mary McLeod Bethune |
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There are many sham diamonds
in this life which pass for real, and vice
versa. |
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- William Makepeace Thackeray |
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Candor is the brightest gem
of criticism. |
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- Benjamin Disraeli |
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When there's pressure, I
believe people will break under it or a
diamond will be created. |
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- Brock Osweiler |
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There are three things
extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to
know one's self. |
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- Benjamin Franklin |
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When a woman dresses up for
an occasion, the man should become the black
velvet pillow for the jewel. |
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- John Weitz |
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Anyone can be confident with
a full head of hair. But a confident bald
man - there's your diamond in the rough. |
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- Larry David |
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere
between sunrise and sunset, two golden
hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward is offered for they are gone
forever. |
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- Horace Mann |
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I prefer liberty to chains of
diamonds. |
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- Mary Wortley Montagu |
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Some men's memory is like a
box where a man should mingle his jewels
with his old shoes. |
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- George Savile |
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At a flea market I always
head for the junk jewelry table first. |
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- Ethel Merman |
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Oh, the summer night, Has a
smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire
throne. |
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- Barry Cornwall |
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For truth is precious and
divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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Next to sound judgment,
diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in
the world. |
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- Jean de la Bruyere |
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Good memories are lost
jewels. |
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- Paul Valery |
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Candor is the brightest gem
of criticism. |
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- Benjamin Disraeli |
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I prefer liberty to chains of
diamonds. |
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- Mary Wortley Montagu |
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O Diamond! Diamond! thou
little knowest the mischief done! |
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- Isaac Newton |
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Sincerity is glass,
discretion is diamond. |
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- Andre Maurois |
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A great poet is the most
precious jewel of a nation. |
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- Ludwig van Beethoven |
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Diamonds are my service
stripes. |
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- Mae West |
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There are three things
extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to
know one's self. |
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- Benjamin Franklin |
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When a woman dresses up for
an occasion, the man should become the black
velvet pillow for the jewel. |
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- John Weitz |
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Jewels five-words long / That
on the stretched forefinger of all Time /
Sparkle for ever. |
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- Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
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I would rather be adorned by
beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are
the gift of fortune, while character comes
from within. |
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- Titus Maccius Plautus |
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When we long for life without
difficulties, remind us that oaks grow
strong in contrary winds and diamonds are
made under pressure. |
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- Peter Marshall |
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Just because it sparkles
doesn't mean it's good. |
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- Armie Hammer |
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We shall find peace. We shall
hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling
with diamonds. |
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- Anton Chekhov |
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