Quotations About / On: SHINE

  • 41.
    If you have wit, use it to please, and not to hurt; you may shine, like the sun in the temperature zones, without scorching. Here it is wished for; under the Line it is dreaded.
    (Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Sept. 5, 1748, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq, 5th ed., vol. II, p. 58, London (1774). "Under the Line" means below the equator.)
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  • 42.
    So melts, so vanisheth, so fades, so withers
    The rose, the shine, the bubble, and the snow
    Of praise, pomp, glory, joy (which short life gathers),
    Fair praise, vain pomp, sweet glory, brittle joy.
    (Edmund Bolton (1575?-1633?), British poet. A Palinode (l. 5-8). . . Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 43.
    But thou beneath the sad and heavy line
    Of death, doth waste all senseless, cold, and dark;
    Where not so much as dreams of light may shine,
    Nor any thought of greenness, leaf, or bark.
    (Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. The Timber (l. 9-12). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 44.
    Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay; and, too sanguinely hoping to shine on in their meridian, often set with contempt and ridicule.
    (Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Feb. 26, 1754, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq, 5th ed., vol. IV, p. 61, London (1774).)
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  • 45.
    Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.
    (Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), U.S. poet, novelist, critic. "On Poetry and Painting, with a Thought of Music," Figures of Thought: Speculations on the Meaning of Poetry and Other Essays, Godine (1978).)
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  • 46.
    It will be no excuse to an idle and untoward servant, who would not attend his business by candle-light, to plead that he had not broad sun-shine. The candle, that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all our purposes.
    (John Locke (1632-1704), British philosopher. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 5, p. 45, ed. P. Nidditch, Oxford, Clarendon Press (1975).)
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  • 47.
    No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
    (Francis Lockier (1668-1740), British prelate, man of letters. quoted in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, pt. 2, "1730-32," (1820).)
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  • 48.
    Because the image of my body remains in you, similarly, if the morals of my soul were not to shine through, one would not judge you to be the guardian and treasurer of our name, and the pleasure I would take in seeing this would be small, considering that the smallest part of myself—my body—would remain, and that the best, which is the soul through which our name lasts in benediction amongst men, would be bastardized and corrupt.
    (François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Gargantua to Pantagruel, in Pantagruel, ch. 8, p. 242, Pleiade edition (1995).)
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  • 49.
    He may not shine with courtly graces,
    But yet, his kind, respectful air
    To woman, whatsoe'er her place is,
    It might be well if kings could share.
    So, for the chivalric true gentleman,
    Give me, I say, our own American.
    (Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919), U.S. poet, journalist. "The True Knight.")
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  • 50.
    Or seen the furrows shine but late upturned,
    And where the fieldfare followed in the rear,
    When all the fields around lay bound and hoar
    Beneath a thick integument of snow.
    So by God's cheap economy made rich
    To go upon my winter's task again.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. writer. Winter Memories (l. 25-30). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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