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• Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.

  Charles Dickens

  Song, Nature, Air

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.37

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• The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Flower, Roots, Heaven

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a glassy mirror, reflecting the clouds that pass over it and the trees on its banks. Or, when a light breeze springs up, the surface of the river may be broken into little diamond lights reflecting the distant sun.

  Ernie Lyons

  Spring, Rivers, Clouds

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• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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• Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Glasses, Water

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3195, Manonmani Publishers

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• A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.

  Kabir

  Dirt, Fool, Streets

  "Bijak". Sakhi, 171. Translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib,

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• It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible.

  Michelle Kwan

  Winning, Titles, Would Be

  "Graceful Kwan still seeking gold" by Bob Phillips, www.espn.com.

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• Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Girl, Dog, Sex

  "Zsa Zsa Gabor Loved Diamonds Like These" by Rachel Garrahan, www.nytimes.com. December 01, 2017.

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• If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

  Mortimer Adler

  Book, Reading, Understanding

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• Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Life, Writing, Creating

  Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Men, Dental Work

  Don Quixote I, Ch. 4 (1605)

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• Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

  Noam Chomsky

  New York, Order, Miracle

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.128, Pluto Press

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• I think Lilyan (Tashman) is one of the most amusing people I know but I believe she dresses in too flamboyant a manner. Where some women wear one or two diamond clasps, she wears four!

  Hedda Hopper

  Believe, Thinking, Two

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• Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Men, Depth, World

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• As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Cutting, Winning

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• People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Girl, Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Prayer, Heart

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• A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond

  Evan Esar

  Girl, Long, Care

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• N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied Stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. He was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Boys, Years, Peaceful

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• Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
  Beauty is the mine, LOVE is the diamond.
  They have together since the beginning of time-
  Side by side, step by step.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Soul Beauty, Beauty And Love

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “All Through Eternity”

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• The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brotherhood, Gold, Silver

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.

  Michael Gurian

  Writing, Men, Emotional

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• The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.

  James Salter

  Past, Design, Sifting

  James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”

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• There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions.

  Andrew Harvey

  Grief, Self, Silence

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