Light Quotes

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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their… — John Milton
These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests,… — Henry Van Dyke
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural… — Beverley Nichols
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. — Samuel Daniel
O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved… — Brigit of Kildare
We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes… — Herman Bavinck
Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly. — George Eliot
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy… — William Shakespeare
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a… — Wendell Berry
O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken,… — Wendell Berry
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute. — Claude Monet
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of… — Georges Clemenceau
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the… — Minnie Louise Haskins
What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right. — Bertolt Brecht
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. — Henry David Thoreau
Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the… — Walter Scott

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