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• I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

  Abraham Cowley

  Fate, Night, Clouds

  Abraham Cowley, “A Vote (Excerpt)”

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  There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  Washington Irving

  Encouraging, Kindness, Lying

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.39, e-artnow

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• The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

  Dave Eggers

  Couple, Keys, Light

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• Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

  John Jewel

  Beautiful, Giving, Heaven

  John Jewel (2008). “The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury: The Fourth Portion”, p.1162, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

  Shannon Miller

  Exercise, Two, Balance

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• We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Axes, Ions

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• And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

  Luke the Evangelist

  Jesus, Brother, Eye

  New Testament, Luke 6:41,

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• Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

  Robert Southey

  Peace, Order, Cities

  "The Doctor, Etc".

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• We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Tree, Sap, Vigor

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• What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

  Henry Abbey

  Sea, Tree, Knees

  Henry Abbey, “What Do We Plant?”

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• Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Moving, Light, Circles

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being 'the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person.

  Stephen Charnock

  Clouds, Law, Brightness

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• They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Trying, Wells

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.110, Scholastic Inc.

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• We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Heart, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.341, Library of America

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• It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

  George Eliot

  Men, Intellectual, Intelligence

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

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• The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Knowing, Essentials

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.287

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• Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars

  Nadia Comaneci

  Dream, Stars, Bars

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• To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

  George MacDonald

  People, Trying, Way

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1127, e-artnow

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• If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.

  Austin O'Malley

  Light, White, Rays

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• Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

  Douglas V. Steere

  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

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• Through countless births in the cycle of existence
  I have run, not finding
  although seeking the builder of this house;
  and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth.
  Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen.
  You shall not build a house again for me.
  All your beams are broken,
  the ridgepole is shattered.
  The mind has become freed from conditioning:
  the end of craving has been reached.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Buddhist, Broken

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• How sweet to move at summer's eve
  By Clyde's meandering stream,
  When Sol in joy is seen to leave
  The earth with crimson beam;
  When islands that wandered far
  Above his sea couch lie,
  And here and there some gem-like star
  Re-opes its sparkling eye.

  Andrew Park

  Summer, Sweet, Stars

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• A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

  Allen Lacy

  Powerful, Light, Hands

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• Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

  Charles Lamb

  Marriage, Wedding, Couple

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.79

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• The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children; the face that is as the sun shining in its strength beams with as much love as when it drew publicans and harlots to His feet. The breast that is girt with the golden girdle is the same breast upon which John leaned his happy head.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Stars, Children, Blessing

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