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Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye. -- Thomas Nashe
The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night. -- William Shakespeare
This dark brightness that falls from the stars. -- Pierre Corneille
Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness. -- Jimmie Davis
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. -- Samuel Johnson
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. -- James Gates Percival
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. -- Jane Porter
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness. -- John of Capistrano
I am a shining star, and I surround myself with people who encourage my brightness. -- Cheryl Richardson
More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. -- Woodrow Wilson
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. -- Charles Richet
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same. -- Tupac Shakur
Turn and face the Light, and all you see is Brightness. Turn and face Shadow, and all of Life will appear before you. -- Stan Sudan
I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. Its an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top. -- Bobbi Brown
One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining. -- John Muir
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. -- Tryon Edwards
Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness. -- Thomas Adams
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree. -- Jonathan Edwards
This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning. -- Joan Didion
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives? -- George Eliot
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star. -- Charles Francis Richter
I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. It's an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top. -- Bobbi Brown
This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured. -- Charles Francis Richter
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness. -- Stephen Phillips
For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location. -- Max von Laue
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined. -- Alice Oswald
Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really. -- George Martin
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next. -- Alice Oswald
Money refused loose its brightness. -- George Herbert
Use your light, but dim your brightness. -- Laozi
The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. -- James Joyce
The sun provides the moon with its brightness. -- Anaxagoras
Deep darkness precedes the dawn of brightness light. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness. -- Thales
Eternal brightness is as scary as the eternal darkness. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend. -- James Joyce
Fear of darkness reinforces darkness. Acceptance and kindness magnify brightness. -- Doobie Shemer
Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness. -- Plato
You are all the colors in one, at full brightness. -- Jennifer Niven
The sun doesn't determine the brightness of the day, you do. -- Kayla Mueller
I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness. -- Jandy Nelson
In my darkness, my pathway was marked by the brightness of light. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God's revelation of himself. -- Wayne Grudem
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. -- Marcus Aurelius
Do not let the darkness of others hide the brightness of your heart. -- Debasish Mridha
There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow. -- Jessica Khoury
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. -- Gregory Maguire
Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness. -- Anthony D. Williams
But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. -- Euripides
"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness. -- Gautama Buddha
The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become. -- Wallace Stevens
God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ. -- John Calvin
When you're a light instead of a dim switch, your brightness radiates in every direction. -- T.F. Hodge
I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird! -- Jenny Lind
A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. -- John Lubbock
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts. -- Andrew Young
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. -- James F. Cooper
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. -- James F. Cooper
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. -- Charles Dickens
Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself. -- Michel Foucault
I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate. -- Stevenson
Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union. -- Laozi
Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness. -- Laurel Clark
It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way. -- Markus Zusak
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. -- Horace
For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust -- Stephen Spender
...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. -- Thomas Hardy
You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness? -- Ryokan Taigu
In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. -- Charles Dickens
Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary. -- Diane Ackerman
The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness. -- Pietro Metastasio
The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute. -- Emma Donoghue
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. -- John Milton
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. -- Dejan Stojanovic
I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon. -- Peter Ackroyd
How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts. -- Neal Shusterman
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ... -- Elizabeth Bibesco
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen. -- Shannon L. Alder
The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit. -- Angelica Hopes
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude! -- Washington Irving
There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun. -- Charles Edward Jefferson
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors. -- Samuel Johnson
Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn. -- Oliver James
Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities. -- Hans Reichenbach
But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear. -- Nikola Tesla
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul. -- Jonathan Edwards
The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble... -- William Golding
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. -- Charles Caleb Colton
But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success. -- John Foxe
Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses. -- Sri Aurobindo
The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter. -- Robert Stawell Ball
You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness. -- Sarah Manguso
Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since weâ??re all going to die horribly anyway, whatâ??s there to be worried about? -- Derek Landy
White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth. -- Richard Grossinger
The world is full of poetry. ~ The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. -- James Percival
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy, brilliance beyond comprehension. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness. -- Ephrem the Syrian
In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see. -- Robert Pinsky
Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night. -- Leo Tolstoy
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. -- Charles Dickens
Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds -- e. e. cummings
The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory. -- Henry Ward Beecher
A joyful life isn't about others; it's about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy. -- Martha Beck
The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures. -- James Elkins
It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. -- C. S. Lewis
The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep... -- Charles Dickens
The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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