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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

-Walter Savage Landor

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As The Pearl Ripens In The Obscurity

Walter Savage Landor

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

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The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. irritations set into his shell. he does not like them. but when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. if there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. it may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. and it takes faith and i love to do it.

A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. the spark is god, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. the spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. it must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. anything can be a shell, reuven. anything. indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. the perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

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