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Shadow Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by…
- Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.
- I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.
- I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will…
- Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and…
- What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months,…
- White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting…
- When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it!…
- Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--…
- I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening…
More Shadow Quotes
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot
- What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- I am about as detailed as a shadow. — Lynda Barry
- To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag… — Jean Baudrillard
- I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. — Martha Beck
- If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison
- In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry
- A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant
- Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. — Ambrose Bierce
- Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake