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Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity. -- William Dunbar
The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten. -- George Eliot
Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem -- Larissa Ione
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A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks. -- Libba Bray
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. -- Jane Porter
St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city. -- Valentina Matviyenko
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it. -- Deborah Cox
I got to work with Rachel Dratch, and she just had such a funny, roll-with-it attitude when she would approach the stage and could turn anything into a gem. -- Stephnie Weir
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. -- George MacDonald
I love 'Call the Midwife'; it's an absolute gem of a programme. Filming the Christmas special and then the second series felt like going back to a boarding school that you really love and is full of friends. -- Helen George
If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault - and I must tread carefully here - if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage. -- Terry Wogan
Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect. -- Rod Carew
I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. -- Markus Zusak
I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original. -- Adrian Lyne
My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape. -- Louis Bacon
One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem. -- Robert Osborne
I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me. -- Platón
What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that 'work!' Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way. -- Linda Sue Park
You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every so often you'll find a gem, a wallet-sized masterpiece you're certain could hang on the wall of a gallery if only someone with a name had taken it. Find one or two of those and you're hooked for life. -- Ransom Riggs
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. -- William Wordsworth
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In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem. -- Bob Dylan
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem -- Jane Porter
Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem! -- Lauryn Hill
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. -- Confucius
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. -- Grace Kelly
There's going to be a new gem in Hollywood, it's called Agron -- Mark Polish
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world. -- Zechariah Barrett
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. -- Hafez
Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. -- William Hamilton Gibson
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. -- Thomas Gray
It's so unique. Wilson Park is just such a gem. It's in a convenient location. -- David Wright
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. -- Walter Pater
But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners. -- Mary Renault
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. -- Leonard Cohen
Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup. -- Isaac McLellan
Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. -- Abraham Cowley
Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor. -- Noah Webster
How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem! -- George Meredith
If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless. -- Saadi
On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones. -- Amy Lowell
Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse. -- John Green
Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed. -- Nhat Hanh
Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God. -- Tanith Lee
The heart of taijutsu is important and only through training will one polish that heart (like a gem) and understand true taijutsu. -- Toshitsugu Takamatsu
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. -- Charles Lamb
It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand. -- Holly A. Smith
It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand." -- Holly A. Smith
From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I'm a stone, but through you, I am a gem! -- Rumi
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks. -- Robert J. Sawyer
Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out -- Mark Twain
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem. -- Garrison Keillor
The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty â?¦ for a slice of real life, thereâ??s always the Kessler. -- Ben Fountain
A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film. -- John Lasseter
The magical gem bracelet, in all of its yellow beauty, was out of its league. My mind and heart couldn't slow down." --- Jennifer Mills -- Dianne Bright
How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? -- James Wolcott
Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead. -- Italo Calvino
Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet. -- Belle Starr
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom. -- Lord Byron
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears. -- Honore de Balzac
Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem. -- Lauryn Hill
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air. -- Thomas Gray
A hidden gem of knowledge awaits.." "in the trees of wisdom where He mandates." "the right to read the tomes of our people...""to find your answers on defeating the evil." -- Candace Knoebel
Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best? -- Cameron Sinclair
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. -- William Henry Hudson
Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information. Ten thousand reflections hide the true gem. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven. -- Alan Cohen
Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man. -- Jeff Pearlman
In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers. -- Emily Rodda

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