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Luster Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure…
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
More Luster Quotes
- I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
- The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
- A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts. — Ellen G. White
- There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky... — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. — Lord Chesterfield
- It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster… — Lord Byron