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«We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.»
Author: Ben Sweetland | About: Social service | Keywords: brightened, brightening, brightens, our own, path, torch, torches
«Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.»
Author: Robert Lynd (Essayist, Journalist) | Keywords: birthday, brightened, brightening, risen
«To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day withreverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a cleanmind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the UltimatePurpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on mylips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all thehours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joythat comes from work well done -- this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.»
Author: Thomas Dekker (Dramatist, Writer) | Keywords: brightening, courteous, greet, The Hours, weariness, well-done, woos
«How blessings brighten as they take their flight.»
Author: Edward Young (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: brighten, brightened, brightening, brightens, flight
«May the raindrops fall lightly on your brow. May the soft winds freshen your spirit. May the sunshine brighten your heart. May the burdens of the day rest lightly upon you, and may God enfold you in the mantle of His love.»
Author: Irish Blessings | Keywords: brighten, brightened, brightening, brightens, brow, brows, burdening, burdens, enfold, enfolded, enfolding, fall, freshen, freshen up, lightly, mantle, mantled, mantles, raindrop, raindrops, rest day, soft, spirit, sunshine, The Brow, winds
«There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.»
Author: Isaac Asimov (Biochemist, Writer) | About: Science | Keywords: brighten, brightening, brightens
«I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers / because males have got to try and justify their existence.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: belong to, brighten, brightened, brightening, brightens, desperation, feathers, have got, justify, luxury, madden, maddening, prettier, Pretty Woman, The Birds
«Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance»
Author: Bible | About: Appearance, Men, Wisdom | Keywords: brightened, brightening, brightens, explanation
«And, all his prospects brightening to the last, / His heaven commences ere the world be past!»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: brightening, commences
«Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Sorrow | Keywords: brighten, brightening, brightens, cleanse, cleanses, rust
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