The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Daniel Defoe

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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

Adele

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When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Fulton J. Sheen

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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Galileo Galilei

Clusters Else Mass Milky

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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Walter Dean Myers

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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ben Jonson

Ages Good Illustrate Live

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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Washington Irving

Always Among Away Clouds

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Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity Lust Mind Of

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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

Alone Endures Flesh Future

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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

T. D. Jakes

Ages Develop Development Early

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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

T. D. Jakes

About Amazing Amazing Thing Christ

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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Uzodinma Iweala

Accessible Around Cities Clusters

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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Rachel Carson

Attention Burroughs Destruction Emotion

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I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.

Robert H. Schuller

Across Being Build Come

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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Bible Gave Hours I Think

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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Frederick Buechner

Lust Craving Salt Dying

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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Pope Francis

Beautiful Behind Discover Example

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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Camille Paglia

Aroused Attracts Being Live

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Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Zoroaster

Beware Lust Corrupt Body

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Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.

Isoroku Yamamoto

Attack Been Being Better

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I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

M. C. Escher

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My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

H.C. Andersen

Life Work Best Illustration

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This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust

Mahmoud Darwish

Peace Leave Cluster Dust

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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Karl Lagerfeld

Artist Become Cartoon First

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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

Karl Lagerfeld

Become Child Illustrator Wanted

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Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

Danielle Steel

Always Romance Love Lust

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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock

Artist Expressing Feelings His

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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Henry James

Character Determination Incident

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Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

James Carville

Cities Cluster Democrats Republicans

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Herodotus

Knowledge Give weight Accomplishment People

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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Marquis de Sade

Lust Other passions Nervous fluid Life

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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

Marquis de Sade

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The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

James Clerk Maxwell

Mathematical difficulties Theory Rotation Geometrical illustrations

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I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Thomas Hardy

Some good Dead Success Frightful example

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Nothing engenders skepticism, even cynicism, in the citizen than lackluster leadership.

Yahaya Bello

Nothing engenders Skepticism Even cynicism The citizen

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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Blaise Pascal

Lust Source Our actions Humanity

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Rather, it is a dramatic illustration that ultimately no one, not even member of the senate enjoying the national pastime, is safe from violence in an unequal society where not everyone is made to feel safe ...

Omotayo Alasoadura

Dramatic illustration Illustration Even member Enjoying

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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

Aleister Crowley

Can imagine Death bed With lust Next world

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...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.

Alison Lurie

Write Character Hate Fear

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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Anne Bradstreet

Fire Force Abated Anger

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The world learning the hard way that we cannot continue throwing money at an outbreak, then do little to prevent the next one.COVID19's impact on lives, livelihoods and the global economy is a clear illustration that preparedness is not a cost, it’s an investment.

Tedros Adhanom

The world Learning Hard way Throwing money

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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense

William Penn

Love Lust Enjoyment Souls

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The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

William Shatner

Quality Great story Illustrates Human condition

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A junior data scientist, battling political manipulation around the world with scant resources and immense power to moderate content is the perfect illustration of Facebook's approach to its responsibilities.

Nicholas M. Dawes

Data scientist Political manipulation The world Scant resources

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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

John Keats

Real Experienced Proverb Life

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Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust

John Webster

Fall Ambition Blood Lust

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Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

Mignon McLaughlin

Vanity Revenge Lust Promiscuity

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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Daniel Defoe

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

Adele

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Fulton J. Sheen

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Galileo Galilei

Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Walter Dean Myers

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ben Jonson

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Washington Irving

Thomas Hobbes

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

T. D. Jakes

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

T. D. Jakes

Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Uzodinma Iweala

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Rachel Carson

Robert H. Schuller

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Frederick Buechner

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Pope Francis

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Camille Paglia

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Zoroaster

Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.

Isoroku Yamamoto

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

M. C. Escher

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

H.C. Andersen

This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust

Mahmoud Darwish

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

Danielle Steel

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Henry James

Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

James Carville

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Herodotus

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Marquis de Sade

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

Marquis de Sade

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

James Clerk Maxwell

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Thomas Hardy

Nothing engenders skepticism, even cynicism, in the citizen than lackluster leadership.

Yahaya Bello

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Blaise Pascal

Rather, it is a dramatic illustration that ultimately no one, not even member of the senate enjoying the national pastime, is safe from violence in an unequal society where not everyone is made to feel safe ...

Omotayo Alasoadura

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

Aleister Crowley

...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.

Alison Lurie