Shells

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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

-Isaac Newton

The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone

-Unknown

The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells what the kernel is.

-Unknown

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world.

-Steven Wright

The jewel of the soul is priceless, and yet it is being squandered like this, in exchange for a mere shell.

-Guru Granth Sahib

Beauty of simplicity is its unspoken sense of belongingness to almost everything.

-Ashish

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

-Gautam Budha

Break like a shell, it still retains beauty.

-Ashish

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

-Thomas Browne

The ocean and I have many pebbles. To find and wash off and roll into shape.

-William Stafford

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