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The Diamonds
«The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear»
«In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India»
«When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure»
Author: Peter Marshall
| About:
Difficulty,
Life
| Keywords:
Contraries, contrary, diamonds, difficulties, grow, long, oaks, pressure, pressured, remind, strong, The Diamond, The Diamonds, Too Much Pressure, under, winds
«There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.»
Author: Pete Hamill
| Keywords:
Another Country, Big Country, diamonds, disasters, football player, fortunes, murders, players, skies, Texas, The Diamonds, the Football, The Fortunes, The Women
«Diamonds never leave you... men do!»
Author: Shirley Bassey
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
diamonds, leave, The Diamond, The Diamonds
«Pressure makes diamonds.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| Keywords:
diamonds, pressure, pressured, The Diamond, The Diamonds, Too Much Pressure
«No gold-digging for me... I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
| Keywords:
diamonds, digging, digging up, digs, dig in, dig into, dig out, dig up, dug, gold, gold standard, someday, standard, Taking Off, The Diamond, The Diamonds
«Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
at all, better, diamonds, let, none, old, particular, Particulars, secondhand, The Diamond, The Diamonds, too
«Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
brightest, diamonds, discard, discarding, discards, gems, guard, improve, known, moments, on guard, on your guard, spare, sparing, The Diamond, The Diamonds, uncut, useful, value