Brilliancy Quotes

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They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy of this virtue;… — Paul of the Cross
Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know… — Florence Nightingale
Without error, there is no brilliancy. — Emanuel Lasker
Without error there can be no brilliancy — Emanuel Lasker
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when… — Ansel Adams
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of… — Pope Leo X
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces… — Walter Pater
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is… — David Hume
The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as… — Confucius
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the… — Abraham Kuyper
If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars — Unknown Author
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy! — Henry James
Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The… — Leonardo da Vinci
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own. — Victor Hugo
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach.… — John Ruskin
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in… — Tycho Brahe
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage… — Theodore Roosevelt
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up… — Virginia Woolf
When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember… — Herman Melville
I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and… — Anais Nin
Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot… — Stephenie Meyer

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