Quotes with beams

  • There is in every 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.
  • An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

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  • Susanna Moodie Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
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  • Saskya Pandita An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
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  • William Shakespeare How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Cowley 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
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • John Ruskin In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Robert Southey Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Bayard Taylor Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Washington Irving There is in every 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
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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