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| Civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and the beauty of night back to the forests and the seas; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of the night? Do they fear the vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars? Henry Beston Quotes |
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| As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Gustav Jung Quotes |
| If the world is to be understood, if we are to avoid such logical paradoxes when traveling at high speeds, there are some rules, commandments of Nature, that must be obeyed. Einstein codified these rules in the special theory of relativity. Light (reflected or emitted) from an object travels at the same velocity whether the object is moving or stationary: Thou shalt not add thy speed to the speed of light. Also, no material object may move faster than light: Thou shalt not travel at or beyond the speed of light. Nothing in physics prevents you from traveling as close to the speed of light as you like; 99.9 percent of the speed of light would be just fine. But no matter how hard you try, you can never gain that last decimal point. For the world to be logically consistent there must be a cosmic speed limit. Otherwise, you could get to any speed you wanted by adding velocities on a moving platform. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| The film of evening light made the red earth lucent, so that its dimensions were deepened, so that a stone, a post, a building, had greater depth, and more solidity than in any daytime light; and these objects were curiously more individual- a post was more essentially a post, set off from the earth it stood in and the field of corn it stood out against. All plants were individuals, not the mass of crop; and the ragged willow tree was itself, standing free of all other willow trees. The earth contributed a light to the evening. The front of the gray, paintless house, facing the west, was luminous as the moon is. The gray dusty truck, in the yard before the door, stood out magically in this light, in the overdrawn perspective of a stereopticon. John Steinbeck Quotes |
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| Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb Quotes |
| There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber Quotes |
| In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light." Laurens van der Post Quotes |
| Moonlight is sculpture. Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes |
| Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. Irish Proverb Quotes |
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| We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland Quotes |
| Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. Michael Strassfeld Quotes |
| Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. Aretaeus Quotes |
| Live in rooms full of light. Cornelius Celsus Quotes |
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| We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. Mary Dunbar Quotes |
| You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie Quotes |
| There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton Quotes |
| People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Quotes |
| Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori Proverb Quotes |
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| The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. Felix Adler Quotes |
| Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes |
| The sun is nature's Prozac. Astrid Alauda Quotes |
| A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. Plato Quotes |
| When you possess light within, you see it externally. Anaïs Nin Quotes |
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| You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. Antonio Porchia Quotes |
| Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. Norman B. Rice Quotes |
| How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir Quotes |
The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes |
| The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov Quotes |
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| Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... Susan Polis Shutz Quotes |
| I'm not a doctor and I don't know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands. Jessi Lane Adams Quotes |
| From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider Quotes |
| In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Aaron Rose Quotes |
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What more pleasant sensation
than sunshine on skin,
Spirit and flesh drinking in the light
Of God and energy itself.
Emme Woodhull-Bäche Quotes |
| Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all The Others were making ships. Charles Simic Quotes |
| A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. Author Unknown Quotes |
His high endeavors are an inward light
That makes the path before him always bright.
William Wordsworth Quotes |
| They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy. Star Richés Quotes |
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| Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Quotes |
| In the beginning there was nothing. God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. Ellen DeGeneres Quotes |
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Light is good from whatever lamp it shines. Author Unknown Quotes |
| When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light. Astrid Alauda Quotes |
| Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. Sven Nykvist Quotes |
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| Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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| Love is not consolation. It is light. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
| In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal Quotes |
I used to love the darkness
But the sun is my new best friend
As soon as I embraced him
He put my misery to an end.
Abbe Yeux-verdi Quotes |
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| For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. Peace Pilgrim Quotes |
| A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. Annie Dillard Quotes |
Joy requires one to be awake,
Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright.
Some prefer the dark, as is their right,
On grounds of agony, and to forsake
Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.
Nicholas Gordon Quotes |
| I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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| Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. H.M. Tomlinson Quotes |
| Sunshine is my quest. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| Light, God's eldest daughter... Thomas Fuller Quotes |
Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Quotes |
| We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. Earl Nightingale Quotes |
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| Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls. Amethyst Snow-Rivers Quotes |
Into my heart's night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day.
Rubaiyat of Rumi Quotes |
| Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. Alan Alda Quotes |
| What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. Joseph Joubert Quotes |
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| There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light. N.P. Willis Quotes |
| The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. Emily Dickinson Quotes |
Auld Daddy Darkness...
See him in the corners hidin' frae the licht,
See him at the window gloomin' at the nicht...
James Ferguson Quotes |
| No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. Terry Pratchett Quotes |
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| Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. Howard Nemerov Quotes |
| Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. Matthew Arnold Quotes |
| The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. Joseph Campbell Quotes |
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen Quotes |
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| Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. Douglas Adams Quotes |
| It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. Calvin Quotes |
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' The Centre, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself his own dungeon.
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| If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. Jean Asper McIntosh Quotes |
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Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams Quotes |
| The stars are the street lights of eternity. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| Wine is sunlight, held together by water. Galileo Quotes |
| Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? Albert Schweitzer Quotes |
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| An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. James Michener Quotes |
| For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes |
| Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Jean Giraudoux Quotes |
| Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool. Akhenaton Quotes |
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| A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen Quotes |
| Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be Swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes |
| Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides. Saint Thomas Aquinas Quotes |
| Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
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| The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell. Saint Augustine Quotes |
| God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things. Saint Augustine Quotes |
| Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. "You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight. Sri da Avabhas Quotes |
| Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
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| The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. Georges Bataille Quotes |
| The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. Jean Baudrillard Quotes |
| Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization. L. Frank Baum Quotes |
| When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles Austin Beard Quotes |
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| What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him. Alan Marshall Beck Quotes |
| It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Taylor Benson Quotes |
| No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. Ingrid Bergman Quotes |
| What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. Georges Bernanos Quotes |
| The bird of paradise alights only in the hand that does not grasp. John Berry Quotes |
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| Comfort ye, my people; speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load. For the glory of the Lord now o'er earth is shed abroad; and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken. Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible Quotes |
| After enlightenment, the laundry. Josh Billings Quotes |
| When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. Prince Otto Quotes |
| Begin today! No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have. Henry C. Blinn Quotes |
| 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. Elizabeth Bowen Quotes |
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| It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights. Elizabeth Bowen Quotes |
| I never reprimand a boy in the evening-darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination. Frank L. Boyden Quotes |
| On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. Buddha Quotes |
| Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha Quotes |
| 'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. E. R. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes |
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| Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton Quotes |
| Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat. Julie Burchill Quotes |
| Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. Aaron Burr Quotes |
| Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones?. Montagu Butler Quotes |
| But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. Herbert Butterfield Quotes |
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| Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire. George Gordon Byron Quotes |
| The truth, as the light, makes blind. Albert Camus Quotes |
| Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. Truman Capote Quotes |
| The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. Truman Capote Quotes |
| Dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight. Swedish Carol Quotes |
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| 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth. William Ellery Channing Quotes |
| Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes |
| Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. Jennie Jerome Churchill Quotes |
| The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
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| There is no place more delightful than home. Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
| All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created." (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule) L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. Quotes |
| Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. Quentin Crisp Quotes |
| I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin Quotes |
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| A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Robertson Davies Quotes |
| Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Dbjanski Quotes |
| Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mile Quotes |
| Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone. Thomas De Quincey Quotes |
| Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles. Marquis de Sade Quotes |
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| The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way. Marquis de Sade Quotes |
| No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens Quotes |
| 'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.' Charles Dickens Quotes |
| It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way. Charles Dickens Quotes |
| It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E. L. Doctorow Quotes |
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| Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.' Danielle Donoho Quotes |
| The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Frederick Douglass Quotes |
| Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number. Maurice Druon Quotes |
| The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| E=mc² (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by L/c². Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. George Eliot Quotes |
| Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken. George Eliot Quotes |
| To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| This world we live in is but thickened light. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| When it is darkest, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Deciderius Erasmus Quotes |
| War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. Deciderius Erasmus Quotes |
| Slight not what 's near through aiming at what 's far. Euripides Quotes |
| For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. Euripides Quotes |
| My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. Dame Edna Everage Quotes |
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| Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. Sam Ewing Quotes |
| Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done. Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs Quotes |
| It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. Richard J. Ferris Quotes |
| Strange is it not? That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to. F(rancis) Scott Quotes |
| We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us. Tom Fitzgerald Quotes |
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| No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes |
| Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity. William Hiram Foulkes Quotes |
| What is to give light must endure burning. Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl Quotes |
| Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? Maurice Freehill Quotes |
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| If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. (Sarah) Margaret Fuller Quotes |
| Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. Dr. Thomas Fuller Quotes |
| The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes |
| Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes |
| When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. John W(illiam) Gardner Quotes |
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| We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures. William H(oward) Gass Quotes |
| Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up. Michael J. Gelb Quotes |
| On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti Quotes |
| The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
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| The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened. Newt Gingrich Quotes |
| There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns. Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
| Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Hope, like the gleaming taper's light Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. Oliver Goldsmith Quotes |
| The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. Horace Greeley Quotes |
| Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 1:20); while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and grace. At the Cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love; therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God! What marvelous grace and glory. William Hallman Quotes |
| You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold Quotes |
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| If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Isn't it funny how we'll look out the window at the moon, and then we notice it's not the moon but a streetlight? Also what's funny is how we do this every night. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not? Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
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| If The Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of it for granted. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| If you lived in the Dark Ages, and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, 'Can't you make it shoot farther?' No. I'm sorry. That's as far as it shoots. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.' Minnie Haskins Quotes |
| Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes |
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| Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes |
| Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh. Katharine Houghton Hepburn Quotes |
| I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another? Theodore M. Hesburgh Quotes |
| Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. M. Hirschfield Quotes |
| When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy. Ferdinand Hodler Quotes |
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| I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself. Peter Hoeg Quotes |
| When in the pursuit of happiness Obstacles cross our way, When all seems lost And there is a darkening of the day. Remember God in His heaven And it does not cost to call. We'll find despite our troubles We've been blessed after all. Janet Louise Holman Quotes |
| There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer Quotes |
| In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men. Homer Quotes |
| Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it; nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables) Victor Hugo Quotes |
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| Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| ...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die. Robert Maynard Hutchins Quotes |
| At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. Eric Idle Quotes |
| It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. Eugène Ionesco Quotes |
| Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry. Jesse Louis Jackson Quotes |
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| Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love. Adela Rogers St. Johns Quotes |
| Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Mann Jong Quotes |
| Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Mann Jong Quotes |
| The Statue of Liberty is not that monument's name. It is Liberty Enlightening the World. Deane Jordan Quotes |
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| As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Carl Gustav Jung Quotes |
| There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Gustav Jung Quotes |
| Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.) Juvenal Quotes |
| I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. Helen Adams Keller Quotes |
| Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light! Give me light!' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. Helen Adams Keller Quotes |
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| Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels. Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes |
| I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches. Mohammed Daud Khan Quotes |
| Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
| Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
| Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky. Charles Kingsley Quotes |
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| People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes |
| Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die. Michio Kushi Quotes |
| Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it. Jesse Lair Quotes |
| Even in the darkest phase be it thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin. K. D. Lang Quotes |
| He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. Lao-Tzu Quotes |
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| The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty. Lao-Tzu Quotes |
| Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry. Michel Leiris Quotes |
| You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society. Doris Lessing Quotes |
| In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy. Haniel Long Quotes |
| The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
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| I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly. Martin Luther Quotes |
| Years later, people look back upon their darkest day and say -- as Churchill said of London's war years -- 'This was our finest hour.' In a tough spot right now? You may be on the very edge of winning! Guy Lynch Quotes |
| There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. Françoise d'Aubigné Maintenon Quotes |
| The darkest hour has only 60 minutes. Morris Mandel Quotes |
| I will love the light for it shows me the way, Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino Quotes |
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| Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom. Forest McDonald Quotes |
| If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness. Sarah McLachlan Quotes |
| Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. Margaret Mead Quotes |
| A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer Quotes |
| The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
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| A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
| An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. James Albert Michener Quotes |
| My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light. Edna Saint Vincent Millay Quotes |
| If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. John Milton Quotes |
| France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. François Maurice Mitterrand Quotes |
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| Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. Susanna Moodie Quotes |
| Character is what you are in the dark. Dwight Lyman Moody Quotes |
| One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. Hannah More Quotes |
| He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes. Siddha Nagarjuna Quotes |
| [To Robert Fulton:] What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense. Napoleon I Quotes |
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| Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. George Jean Nathan Quotes |
| What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
| Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. Oprah Winfrey Quotes |
| In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. Ellen DeGeneres Quotes |
| There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber Quotes |
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| What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. M. C. Escher Quotes |
| Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. Plato Quotes |
| We burn daylight. William Shakespeare Quotes |
