Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Apology Quotes, Jewels Quotes

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

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O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

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Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

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A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

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A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

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A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

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Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

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I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

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My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

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Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

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She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

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Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

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

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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

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