The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you have shed upon the name of Columbia College. I thank you for the Faculty of the College, for the manifest service you have done to this institution.... I am convinced that in one day or in one summer, you have done more to make Columbia College known than all your predecessors have done since the foundation of the college by this, your great triumph.
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
The real action remains in silver, taking away from gold's luster.
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
I'm playing devil's advocate here, (but) if everybody waits around, there may not be a next time. If we don't get much support on this one here, (promoters Bob Arum and Gary Shaw) may feel like the potential for the rescheduled event might be damaged, that some luster may have been taken off.
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Because of the dramatic shift in job advertising market share from newspapers to the Internet, the help-wanted index has lost much of its luster.
A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
One moment of a mans life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of all fiction.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories