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Light Quotes by William Shakespeare
- With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out
- 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…
- What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?
- Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile
- And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night ...
- A flock of blessings light upon thy back
- A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
- We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
- These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that…
- As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue
- Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw…
- Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step
- Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light
- Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with…
- Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
- For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to…
- Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.
- Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
- When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name…
- Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- 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