Shafts Quotes
33 quotes by 29 authors
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the…
— Andrew Peterson
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise,…
— Honore de Balzac
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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the…
— Ben Crenshaw
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We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety.…
— Jean Plaidy
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Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs,…
— Evan Davis
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The…
— Edmund Spenser
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Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of…
— Rumi
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This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.
— SaigyÅ
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Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers...
— Isaac D'Israeli
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
— Powell Clayton
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There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must…
— Felicia Hemans
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Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.
— James Huneker
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Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
— Robert Herrick
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Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light…
— Alan Seeger
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London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.
— Ruth Rendell
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And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless…
— Lawren Harris
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The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is…
— Thomas Pynchon
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