Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
Mark, young man, the line you succeed in will be of yourown finding. The Davids in life do not slay the Goliaths ofdifficulty and temptation in another's armor, even thoughit be the king's, but with their own self-made weapons,though they be nothing more formidable than a sling anda pebble.
A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
How little it takes to make life unbearable a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of 'thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.' ... And yet I do not doubt that the most Important things are always the best remembered.
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