Best turns & shining Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.”

Turns Mines Shining Vices Folly Satire Pale Purple Peruvians

Book:The Poems of Charles Churchill ...

Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill ...

“A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.”

Ifs Light Eye Night Turns Choices Five Advice Hundred Prison Shining Cells Turn Off Bulbs Mattresses Sleepless Nights Bunk Words Of Advice

Author:William Powell

“Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn, Who hopes to wake the Future to arise, In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays, To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes, Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...”

Men Age Turns Modern Fashion Shapes Sight Shining Surface Lust Arise Selfishness Iron Gray Rays Ashes Rainbow Torn Fragments Fluid Blast Phoenix Modern Man Runes

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.”

Wells Turns Clothes Dresses Shining Contrast Incapable Disadvantages Shining Out

Author:William Shenstone

“Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.”

Men Way Turns Father Heaven Dark Known Shining Guides Wit Scripture Phrases Glorify Lanterns Father In Heaven

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!”

Light Eye Turns Grows Dark Accepting Sun Clear Shining Seeds Passing Passings Triumph Wheels Decline Sail Sun Set Clear Eyes

Author:Starhawk

“Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.”

Ifs Country Turns Nations Women Liberty Enemy Virtue Female Shining Nationalism Zeal Provinces

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

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