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Light Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
- Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is…
- The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure…
- It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we…
- The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover;…
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