Luster Quotes
45 quotes by 36 authors
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
— Lord Chesterfield
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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is…
— Lord Byron
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
— Ellen G. White
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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and…
— Lord Chesterfield
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When you're a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so…
— Corey Taylor
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Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.
— Ovid
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There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and…
— Max von Sydow
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The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who anxiously desire to…
— Melvin J. Ballard
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Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase
— Charles Dickens
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you…
— Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
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Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.
— Constance Hale
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There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Who Wrote These Luster Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 45 Luster Quotes, led by these top contributors: