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“May your season shine with delight and surprise.”

May Blessing Seasons Shining Surprise Delight

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.”

Wells May Action Opinion Failing Conversation Shining Appreciation Superiors Inferiors

Author:Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

“The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.”

May Seems Tears Shining Rewards Worthy Bees Toil Nectar

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself.”

Ifs Should May Whole Light Order Sun Objects Shadow Window Shining South Casts Drawing Height Length Vary

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.”

Ifs May Use Humor Hurt Sun Please Shining Wit Zone Scorching

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.”

May Running Reading Sides Path Depends Concern Shame Shining Misery

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!”

May Children Eye Heaven Stars Brain Weight Shining Size Smoke

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

“Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.”

“But if there has been on this earth no real, perfect human life, no love that never cooled, no faith that never failed, which may shine as a loadstar across the darkness of our experience, a light to light amidst all convictions of our own meanness and all suspicions of other's littleness, why, we may have a religion, but we have not a Christianity. For if we lose Him as a Brother, we cannot feel Him as a Saviour.”

Ifs Feels Humans May Has Beens Real Light Earth Loses Perfect Christianity Darkness Brother Shining Conviction Human Life Suspicion Saviour No Love Meanness

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton