“No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.” NightStarsBeautySunVirtueTearsFlowEarsBlueShiningFortuneRisingCheeksWoePearlsRadiantManlyGemsArchesTwinklingBright StarTwinkling StarsRadiant Beauty Book:Containing the loves of the plants Source: Containing the loves of the plants
“Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would elevate his Master, talk less of what he himself was doing, and become smaller and smaller in his own esteem, until, like the morning star, he faded away before the rising sun.” SaidChristianStarsGrowthMorningSunGraceGrowingMastersEsteemRisingProportionDrsFaded Author:Dwight L. Moody
“For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .” PeopleStarsDarkMoralSuicideClarityLandscapeRisingBombingTerminalLynching Book:Spin Source: Spin
“The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.” PeopleStarsDarkMoralEnemyCatholicSuicideAtheistClarityLandscapeRisingImmigrantsSpeakersBombingLegionTerminalLynchingBritsDisgruntledDark Skinned Book:Spin Source: Spin
“Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.” YoungStarsFourPagesEvidenceDemocratBridgesRisingCowardHungTornScrewsTorn Apart Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.” LightStarsSunAtheismGeniusPositive AtheismRisingHumankind Author:Lucretius
“Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.” HumansAgeLastsStarsWaterLevelsSunDemocracyPrideSpreadSettingSettingsHeatChampionRisingRemarkableMelancholyTidesHeroismMagnificentAlasOblivionFlickerDandyism Author:Charles Baudelaire
“A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.” NightStarsSilentEastRisingShedJewelsBrowsAfarSilent Night Author:Bryan Procter