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Letter "D" » diamond
«The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear»
Author: Daniel Defoe
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About:
Soul
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Keywords:
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body,
diamond,
luster,
placed,
polished,
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polishing,
rough,
rougher,
roughest,
roughs,
The Body,
The Diamond,
The Diamonds
«The Bible - among other books is as a diamond among precious stones»
«My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.»
«The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool»
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Author,
Clergyman,
Pastor,
Speaker,
Writer)
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Keywords:
ache,
blithe,
bosom,
brooch,
brooches,
coarse,
coarsest,
dances,
diamond,
wool
«Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers»
«The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; / Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.»
«Perhaps Time's Definition of Coal is the Diamond.»
«Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Diplomat,
Statesman,
Wit)
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About:
Knowledge,
Manners
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Keywords:
adorn,
closet,
diamond,
intrinsic,
intrinsic value,
polished,
prized,
smooth
«The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.»
«The Diamond of the Guru has pierced the diamond of my mind, which is now dyed in the deep crimson color of the Name.»