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  • Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the L is risen upon thee.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDIsaiah 60:1.

  •    Pardon me boy is that the Chattanooga Choo-choo, Track twenty nine, Boy you can give me a shine.

    - Mack Gordon
      Song 'Chattanooga Choo Choo', featured in Sun Valley Serenade (music by Harry Warren).

  • No one could shine his shoes, much less fill them.

    -Walter Seff Isaacson
      On President Nixon's self-image at the time of his resignation. Kissinger:  A Biography.

  • I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, council, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windyTroy. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

    -Tennyson
      Poems,'Ulysses' (published1842), l.6^24.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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