Jewels Quotes

• The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

  Robert Ludlum

  Precious Stones, Flesh, Jewelry

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• Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

  Ovid

  Simplicity, Found

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• Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

  Edgar Guest

  Children, Years, Joy

  Edgar Albert Guest, “The Children”

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• Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

  Maya Angelou

  Precious Jewels, Shining, Looks

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• These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

  George Eliot

  Color, Jewelry, Speak

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2657, ShandonPress

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• Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

  Sonja Henie

  Wrinkles, People, Mind

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

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• Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewelry, Moments, Useful Life

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• Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.

  Celia Brayfield

  Beautiful, Long, Endure

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• Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

  Evan Esar

  Consistency, Too Much, Jewelry

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

  George Croly

  Summer, Flower, June

  George Croly, Richard DAGLEY (1822). “Gems, principally from the antique, drawn and etched by Richard Dagley ... With illustrations in verse, by the Rev. G. Croly”, p.34

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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• Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

  Kay Boyle

  Soul, Body, Boxes

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• Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the face of the world what it is, and as we see it, is interesting and instructive. Until we get hold of a group of physical facts, we do not know what practical bearings they may have, though right-minded men know that they contain many precious jewels, which science, or the expert hand of philosophy will not fail top bring out, polished, and bright, and beautifully adapted to man's purposes.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Nature, Philosophy, Hard Work

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• The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1345, Delphi Classics

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• Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewelry, Moments, Useful Life

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• The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

  Grace Kelly

  Queens, Pearls, Jewelry Boxes

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• The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Attitude, Soul, Enlightenment

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Humanness Is, Able

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• You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

  Richard Bach

  Light, Color, Forever

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• Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Marriage, Pain

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.86, Crown Archetype

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• I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

  Mae West

  Funny, Thank You, Shining

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• Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

  Juvenal

  Inspirational, Shining, Quality

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• I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

  Plautus

  Beauty, Character, Rubies

  "Plautus: The little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The rope".

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• Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Night, Unseen

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.261

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• Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Portions, Rings

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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