Bright Quotes
1996 Bright quotes by 1325 unique authors
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Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more…
— Alec Soth
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The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well…
— Havelock Ellis
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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Bright and illustrious illusions!
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they…
— Ernst Gombrich
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace…
— James Russell Lowell
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I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar…
— Thomas Hood
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
— Walter Scott
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An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all…
— Leigh Hunt
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Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are…
— Dalai Lama
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In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright…
— Ralph Marston
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
— John Dryden
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Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright…
— Francis Scott Key
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
— William Cowper
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And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But…
— Robert Southey
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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
— John Milton
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Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but…
— John Milton
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Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.
— Heinrich Heine
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There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
— Samuel Lover
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Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,…
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to…
— Jean Ingelow
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White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He…
— Robert Greene
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