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Light Quotes by William Wordsworth
- Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
- Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me…
- A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light
- That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
- But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
- At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
- The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
- His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.
- Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling…
- Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring…
- Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
- I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling…
- O dearer far than light and life are dear.
More Light Quotes
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- 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
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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
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