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“Why there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse never fell upon our nation till now, I never felt it till now. Two thousand ducats in that, and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear; would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin.”
— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, III, i (Shylock)
“You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.”
— Song of Solomon 4:9-16 (NIV)
“How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince’s daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist’s hands,”
— Song of Solomon 7:1-7 (NIV)
“I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.”
— Thomas Browne, (1658), Dedication.
“Self-respect without the respect of others is like a jewel which will not stand the daylight.”
— Alfred Nobel, as quoted in A Nobel Affair: The Correspondence between Alfred Nobel and Sofie Hess, p. 48, Translated by Erika Rummel, , 2017.
“Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.”
— Fred Rogers, Commencement Address at Dartmouth College June 9th, 2002

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