Light Quotes
10393 quotes by 4904 authors
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Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive of more good…
— George Washington
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May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while…
— George Washington
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May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and…
— George Washington
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I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite…
— Victor Hugo
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at…
— Ernest Hemingway
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its…
— Primo Levi
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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…
— Victor Hugo
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Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have…
— William T. Piper
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Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I…
— Hanna Reitsch
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.
— Charles Studd
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I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.
— Kurt Weill
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What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we know how...We want…
— Michael Hutchence
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The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
— James Madison
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.
— Alexander Hamilton
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who…
— Victor Hugo
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those…
— Hannah More
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