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Light Quotes by Charles Dickens
- In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
- In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the…
- There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.
- I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy
- Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light…
- When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What…
- The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things…
- The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing…
- The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in…
- It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper…
- It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and…
- There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
- Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
- Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
- I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I…
- Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
- Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of…
- You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the…
- What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw…
- The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.
- The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear…
- I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings.…
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it…
- So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray…
- He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his…
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- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
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- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann