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  • The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

    Beauty   Lust   Dresses  
  • A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have no luster, but they turn into foxfire and glow in the summer moonlight. So we know that purity emerges from impurity, and light is born from darkness.

    Summer   Dirty   Autumn  
  • It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.

    Wine   Eye   Blood  
  • A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation
  • For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

  • Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.

    Clouds   Lust   Rays  
    "The Analectic Magazine".
  • Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you have shed upon the name of Columbia College. I thank you for the Faculty of the College, for the manifest service you have done to this institution. . . . I am convinced that in one day or in one summer, you have done more to make Columbia College known than all your predecessors have done since the foundation of the college by this, your great triumph.

  • When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

    Self   Soul   Austerity  
    Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.133
  • It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time - as the original impetus loses its luster. And then, I suppose, it's on to the next thing. But eros is eternal, like joy.

    Joy   Next   Energy  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

    Depth   Easy   Luster  
    "VFX Legend John Dykstra On ‘X-Men: First Class’, ‘Spider-Man’ & ‘Caddyshack’ Gophers". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. August 31, 2011.
  • Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.

    Lying   Grief   Eye  
  • The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

    Art   Lust   Crystals  
  • There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

    Summer   Fall   Autumn  
    'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)
  • I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.

    Eye   Looks   Luster  
    "The Duenna". Three-act comic opera by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Act I, Scene II), November 21, 1775.
  • How thankful I am, how thankful we all must be, for the women in our lives. God bless them. May His great love distill upon them and crown them with luster and beauty, grace and faith.

    Great Love   Grace   May  
  • Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

    Grief   People   Shining  
  • Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

    Humble   Humility   Pride  
  • It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

    Mean   Men   Odds  
    William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.98
  • Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.

    Light   White   Darkness  
    Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.594, Simon and Schuster
  • Fidelity is the total quality of an experience, including a sense of exclusiveness and aura. Convenience is simply how easy something is to get, which often means a low price and ubiquitousness. A super-fidelity product or service would lose its luster and quality if it's pushed too hard toward convenience. A super-convenient product or service would start to get expensive and exclusive if it moved toward higher fidelity, which would naturally undermine its convenience.

    Mean   Quality   Auras  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

    Time   Men   Fiction  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”
  • I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. I have not come on behalf of any exclusive religion. I have not come on a mission of publicity for a sect or creed or cause, nor have I come to collect followers for a doctrine. I have no plan to attract disciples or devotees into my fold or any fold. I have come to tell you of this unitary faith, this spiritual principle, this path of Love, this virtue of Love, this duty of Love, this obligation of Love.

    Love   Spiritual   Heart  
    FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jun 29, 2013
  • Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.

    Sky   Circles   Shining  
  • Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

    Samuel Johnson (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.199
  • The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

    Light   Perception   Body  
    Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.120
  • I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster.

    Heart   Light   Shining  
    FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 23, 2017
  • Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal.

    Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.383, Macmillan
  • A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.41, 谷月社
  • Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.

    Rain   Unique   Roots  
    "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1997.
  • Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.

    Passion   Eye   Design  
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