"That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers……" — Horace

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• There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting… — Charles Edward Jefferson
• Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. — Woodrow Wilson
• Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
• The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the… — Robert Stawell Ball
• [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of… — Bertrand Russell
• Money refused loose its brightness. — George Herbert
• We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. — Rainer Maria Rilke
• My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
• Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna.… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
• I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a… — Diane Arbus
• The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce
• Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at… — Thomas Adams

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