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From its brilliancy everything is illuminated. -- Guru Nanak
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy. -- James Nasmyth
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky. -- Tycho Brahe
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. -- Walter Pater
Without error, there is no brilliancy. -- Emanuel Lasker
Without error there can be no brilliancy -- Emanuel Lasker
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own. -- Victor Hugo
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy! -- Henry James
If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars -- Francisco Largo Caballero
I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy. -- Jamie Farr
Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery. -- Florence Nightingale
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable. -- Dorothy Nevill
The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means. -- Marie Corelli
They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret? -- Willa Cather
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. -- Antoine Rivarol
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out. -- Antoine Rivarol
When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. -- Herman Melville

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