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Shadow Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about…
- When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of…
- The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
- When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly…
- A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until…
- Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might…
- For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.
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- 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