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Other quotes about: wrong death Other quotes by Felicia Hermans.
- "Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light."
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- "It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be."
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Other quotes about: human purpose Other quotes by Carl Jung.
- "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
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Other quotes about: anger life forgiveness Other quotes by Joan Lunden.
- "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."
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Other quotes about: wrong hours earth death day think time nature today food Other quotes by Jeff Melvoin.
- "You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain."
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Other quotes about: power man book Other quotes by Ezra Pound.
- "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
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Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Spanish Proverb.
- "Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love."
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Other quotes about: right time Other quotes by Aaron Rose.
- "In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."
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- "Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light."
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Other quotes about: lost day think never dead words Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.
- "Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos."
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Other quotes about: reason time Other quotes by Willie Tyler.
- "The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time."
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Other quotes by James Thurber.
- "There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures."
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Other quotes about: power life grow Other quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick.
- "No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
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Other quotes about: bad law Other quotes by Douglas Adams.
- "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
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Other quotes about: little people men alone Other quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
- "All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them"
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Other quotes about: science sin single Other quotes by Isaac Asimov.
- "There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
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Other quotes about: world nature mind Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light."
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Other quotes about: live world Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- "This world we live in is but thickened light."
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Other quotes about: first pain Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- "Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."
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Other quotes about: lost small never look Other quotes by Victor Hugo.
- "Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)"
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Other quotes about: find never sun children love child Other quotes by Victor Hugo.
- "Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation."
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Other quotes by George Eliot.
- "Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken."
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Other quotes about: man woman Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.
- "It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman."
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Other quotes by Allan Bloom.
- "Education is the movement from darkness to light."
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Other quotes about: fear Other quotes by Psalm 27.
- "The Lord is my light, and my salvation whom shall I fear"
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Other quotes about: world war Other quotes by Adlai Stevenson.
- "She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world."
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Other quotes about: right Other quotes by Mark Twain.
- "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
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Other quotes about: right man Other quotes by Mark Twain.
- "The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right."
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Other quotes about: work right life Other quotes by Robert Louis Stephenson.
- "The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."
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Other quotes about: human deep Other quotes by Albert Schweitzer.
- "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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Other quotes about: sun beauty Other quotes by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
- "People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within."
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Other quotes about: old day good Other quotes by Dylan Thomas.
- "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
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Other quotes about: christ Other quotes by Mother Theresa.
- "Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."
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Other quotes about: hope Other quotes by Robert Burns.
- "Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me."
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Other quotes about: earth rest Other quotes by Euripides.
- "Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest."
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Other quotes about: day sun Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.
- "The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
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Other quotes by Baltasar Gracian.
- "Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light."
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Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Alexander Pope.
- "Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."
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Other quotes about: death day nothing time life walk Other quotes by William Shakespeare.
- "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
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Other quotes about: sun Other quotes by William Shakespeare.
- "But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
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Other quotes about: day men women creative teach Other quotes by John W. Gardner.
- "When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."
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Other quotes about: something love education soul Other quotes by Hellen Keller.
- "Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour."
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Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Erich Segal.
- "True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."
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Other quotes about: experience world love Other quotes by John Updike.
- "The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience."
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Other quotes by Henri Frdric Amiel.
- "Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
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Other quotes about: grow Other quotes by Oliver Goldsmith.
- "Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray."
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Other quotes by William Butler Yeats.
- "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
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Other quotes by William Butler Yeats.
- "Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."
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Other quotes about: god never need alone Other quotes by Epictetus.
- "When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing"
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Other quotes about: strength death little man value love conscience mind grow hard Other quotes by Thomas Paine.
- "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
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Other quotes about: truth Other quotes by Albert Camus.
- "The truth, as the light, makes blind."
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Other quotes about: people man today dead peace soul Other quotes by Godfather, The.
- "Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today."
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Other quotes about: reason Other quotes by Edwin P. Whipple.
- "An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly."
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Other quotes about: god men man Other quotes by Homer.
- "In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men."
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Other quotes about: earth death world nothing man glory fear look Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.
- "Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."
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Other quotes by Dag Hammarskjld.
- "You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does."
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Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
- "That grief is light which can take counsel."
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Other quotes about: live think world man today love young Other quotes by Theodore Hesburgh.
- "I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another"
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Other quotes about: find truth life silence soul Other quotes by Mahatma Gandhi.
- "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
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Other quotes by Horace.
- "Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal."
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Other quotes about: old world sun Other quotes by Christopher Columbus.
- "Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
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Other quotes by Ben Sweetland.
- "We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
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Other quotes about: power Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
- "He who has great power should use it lightly."
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Other quotes about: earth find never person forget Other quotes by Carl Sagan.
- "When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
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Other quotes by Desiderius Erasmus.
- "Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."
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Other quotes by Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad.
- "Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright strips and broad stars, in the parelious night, o'er the rampart's we watched, as the da da, da, da, da, da, and the rocket's red glare, lots of bombs in the air, gave proof to the night, that we still had a flag, oh say does that spangle banner wave, over all-l-l-l-l that's free, over the home, of the land, and the land of the free"
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Other quotes by Margaret Fuller.
- "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it."
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Other quotes about: world beauty house peace person soul Other quotes by Chinese Proverb.
- "If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world."
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Other quotes by Chinese Proverb.
- "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
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Other quotes by C. V. R. Thompson.
- "Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light."
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Other quotes about: die truth making grow Other quotes by Maxwell Planck.
- "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
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Other quotes about: time Other quotes by Albert Einstein.
- "Emc (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc."
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Other quotes about: experience happy understand Other quotes by Albert Einstein.
- "In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."
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Other quotes about: human truth time life beauty success courage Other quotes by Albert Einstein.
- "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."
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Other quotes by Doug McLeod.
- "I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence."
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Other quotes about: today Other quotes by Ed Koch.
- "The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse."
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Other quotes about: love run walk Other quotes by Miguel de Cervantes.
- "'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it."
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Other quotes about: hope peace love Other quotes by Saint Francis of Assisi.
- "Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy."
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Other quotes by Saint Augustine.
- "God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."
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Other quotes about: children love child Other quotes by James Arthur Baldwin.
- "The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
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Other quotes about: human life good evil look Other quotes by Georges Bataille.
- "The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil."
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Other quotes about: art day something dead rich mind Other quotes by Jean Baudrillard.
- "The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night."
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Other quotes by Taylor Benson.
- "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
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Other quotes about: world today need Other quotes by Henry C. Blinn.
- "Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have."
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Other quotes about: love run walk Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen.
- "'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it."
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Other quotes about: earth first people living Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen.
- "It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights."
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Other quotes about: today Other quotes by Aaron Burr.
- "Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."
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Other quotes about: pain music law rule born Other quotes by Truman Capote.
- "Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
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Other quotes about: earth lost friend world sun love friends child Other quotes by Truman Capote.
- "The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory."
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Other quotes about: hope men peace Other quotes by Swedish Carol.
- "Dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight."
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Other quotes by Hodding Carter.
- "Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."
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Other quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
- "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
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Other quotes about: friend friends Other quotes by Jennie Jerome Churchill.
- "Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."
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Other quotes about: old time people men life children women making child hard young Other quotes by Quentin Crisp.
- "Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."
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Other quotes about: old book moon Other quotes by Robertson Davies.
- "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
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Other quotes by Dbjanski.
- "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."
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Other quotes about: world men man alone Other quotes by Thomas De Quincey.
- "Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone."
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Other quotes about: past Other quotes by Demosthenes.
- "Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue."
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Other quotes about: life music Other quotes by Maurice Druon.
- "Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number."
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Other quotes about: purpose deep Other quotes by Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs.
- "Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done."
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Other quotes by Tom Fitzgerald.
- "We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us."
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Other quotes about: religion Other quotes by William Hiram Foulkes.
- "Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity."
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Other quotes by Dr. Viktor E Frankl.
- "What is to give light must endure burning."
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Other quotes about: man child Other quotes by Maurice Freehill.
- "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light"
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Other quotes about: life pain peace mind Other quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
- "The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him."
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Other quotes about: thinking think people war Other quotes by Michael J. Gelb.
- "Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up."
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Other quotes about: power think man influence Other quotes by Henry George.
- "Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power."
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Other quotes about: today making Other quotes by Newt Gingrich.
- "If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened."
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Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Bhagavad Gita.
- "There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns."
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Other quotes by Arlo Guthrie.
- "You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."
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Other quotes about: hope find never Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.
- "I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not"
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Other quotes about: christ power god never life glory love deep sin rich alone Other quotes by William Hallman.
- "Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 120) while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and grace. At the Cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God What marvelous grace and glory."
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Other quotes about: hope book Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.
- "If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing."
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Other quotes about: thinking think nothing life change Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.
- "As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way."
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Other quotes about: class Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.
- "Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question."
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Other quotes about: god Other quotes by Minnie Haskins.
- "And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'"
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Other quotes about: never people Other quotes by Peter Hoeg.
- "I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself."
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Other quotes about: nothing freedom value society Other quotes by Eric Idle.
- "At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted."
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Other quotes about: person discover Other quotes by Jesse Louis Jackson.
- "Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."
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Other quotes about: luck hope happiness live love Other quotes by Saint Adela Rogers Johns.
- "Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love."
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Other quotes about: human purpose Other quotes by Carl Gustav Jung.
- "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
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Other quotes about: america Other quotes by Mohammed Daud Khan.
- "I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches."
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Other quotes about: person discover Other quotes by Michel Leiris.
- "Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."
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Other quotes by Titus Livius.
- "The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
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Other quotes about: believe Other quotes by Martin Luther.
- "I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly."
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Other quotes about: experience america work freedom person Other quotes by Forest McDonald.
- "Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom."
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Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Sarah McLachlan.
- "If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness."
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Other quotes about: people Other quotes by James Albert Michener.
- "An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
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Other quotes about: friend love friends Other quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
- "My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light."
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Other quotes about: small think world service Other quotes by Hannah More.
- "One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act."
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Other quotes by Siddha Nagarjuna.
- "He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes."
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Other quotes about: time Other quotes by Napoleon I.
- "To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense."
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Other quotes about: first little Other quotes by Isaac Newton.
- "I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."
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Other quotes about: walk Other quotes by Earl Nightingale.
- "We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."
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Other quotes about: believe something walk Other quotes by Patrick Overton.
- "When we walk to the edge of all the light we have And take the step into the darkness of the unknown We must believe that one of two things wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly."
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Other quotes about: believe something walk Other quotes by Frank Outlaw.
- "When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly."
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Other quotes about: courage Other quotes by Coventry Patmore.
- "To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light."
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Other quotes about: happy man Other quotes by William Penn.
- "If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains."
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Other quotes about: god day love rule Other quotes by Catholic Prayer.
- "Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God's love commits me here Ever this day be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and guide."
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Other quotes about: sun perfect Other quotes by Jane Porter.
- "Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared."
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Other quotes about: people Other quotes by John Quinton.
- "Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel."
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Other quotes about: god truth men perfect soul Other quotes by Pythagorus.
- "Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul."
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Other quotes about: christ god man father glory love Other quotes by Eugene Reuweler.
- "The true God is the unknown God to the natural man and also the unknowable God without His revelation in Christ. God is not only invisible to man's sight , but also to man's senses. In Christ is found a God who is near, who hears, who cares, who loves, and who saves. 'For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ' (2 Cor. 46) 'All things are delievered unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father, save the son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him' (Matt. 1127)."
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Other quotes about: change Other quotes by Helen Steiner Rice.
- "Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight."
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Other quotes about: understand food mind Other quotes by Jim Rohn.
- "Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness."
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Other quotes about: teach Other quotes by Giovanni Ruffini.
- "The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself."
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Other quotes about: happy soul Other quotes by Ripley D. Saunders.
- "Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song."
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Other quotes about: god day man sun love Other quotes by Richard Sibbes.
- "Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof."
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Other quotes about: find time Other quotes by Robert Smith.
- "Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things."
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Other quotes about: truth life fear soul Other quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- "The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."
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Other quotes about: philosophy old truth world young Other quotes by Freya Stark.
- "On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light."
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Other quotes about: america live man freedom love country Other quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson.
- "When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
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Other quotes about: old day good Other quotes by Dylan Marlais Thomas.
- "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
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Other quotes about: hope day today Other quotes by Unknown.
- " If Today If you planted hope today In any hopeless heart If someone's burden was lighter Because you did your part, If you caused a laugh That chased some tears away If tonight your name is named When someone kneels to pray Then your day has been well spent."
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Other quotes about: lost day love Other quotes by Unknown.
- "When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day."
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Other quotes about: walk Other quotes by Frank Tyger.
- "If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it."
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Other quotes by Unknown.
- "Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light."
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Other quotes about: hope peace love Other quotes by Unknown.
- "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy."
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- "He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch."
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Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Eugene F. Ware.
- "The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug"
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Other quotes by Edith Wharton.
- "There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
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Other quotes about: reason Other quotes by Isaac Watts.
- "Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther."
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Other quotes by Edith Newbold Jones Wharton.
- "There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
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Other quotes about: small power god world nothing people man glory fear deep child born Other quotes by Marianne Williamson.
- "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous Actually, who are you not to be You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
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Other quotes about: living Other quotes by N. P. Willis.
- "There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light."
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Other quotes about: hope bad die day men sun dreams sin grow Other quotes by Woodrow Wilson.
- "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."
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Other quotes by Woodrow Wilson.
- "One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."
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Other quotes by Oprah Winfrey.
- "Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine."
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Other quotes about: wife Other quotes by Henny Youngman.
- "My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat."
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Other quotes by Carl Zwanzig.
- "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...."
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Other quotes by Anonymous.
- "It is light grief that can take counsel."
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Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- "To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well."
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Other quotes about: speech friend live people silence music friends alone Other quotes by Henry Bromel.
- "After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone."
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Other quotes about: never man love Other quotes by Hartley Coleridge.
- "She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light."
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Other quotes about: men man peace look Other quotes by E. H. Chapin.
- "Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy."
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Other quotes by Cicero.
- "Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language."
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Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Vicomte de Chateaubriand.
- "You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light."
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Other quotes about: hope mind Other quotes by Thomas Campbell.
- "Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh leave the light of Hope behind."
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Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Cato the Elder.
- "From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs."
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Other quotes about: never life Other quotes by John Constable.
- "I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."
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Other quotes about: god nothing Other quotes by Ellen DeGeneres.
- "In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."
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Other quotes about: human food Other quotes by M. F. K. Fisher.
- "Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly."
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Other quotes by Alan Dean Foster.
- "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting."
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Other quotes about: man honest influence perfect soul Other quotes by John Fletcher.
- "Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate."
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Other quotes about: man woman Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- "It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman."
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Other quotes about: truth mind Other quotes by Madam Guizot.
- "Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth."
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Other quotes about: earth love heaven Other quotes by George Gordon Byron.
- "Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."
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Other quotes by Thomas Fuller.
- "Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."
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Other quotes about: time life Other quotes by Rabindranath Tagore.
- "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
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Other quotes by Rabindranath Tagore.
- "Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
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Other quotes about: america god day men sun women creative Other quotes by Carl Sandburg.
- "I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision."
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Other quotes about: small Other quotes by Roosevelt, Eleanor.
- "It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."
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Other quotes by Woody Allen.
- "It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."
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Other quotes about: dreams good Other quotes by Sir Walter Scott.
- "To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."
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Other quotes about: hope nothing time good evil wisdom belief heaven Other quotes by Charles Dickens.
- "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
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Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Charles Dickens.
- "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
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Other quotes about: hope nothing time wisdom belief heaven Other quotes by Charles Dickens.
- "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."
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Other quotes about: hate love Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..
- "Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."
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Other quotes by Emily Dickinson.
- "There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--"
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Other quotes about: die men person Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.
- "The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality."
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Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Og Mandino.
- "I will love the light for it shows me the way, Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."
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Other quotes about: lost Other quotes by Muhammad Ali.
- "The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
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Other quotes by Dorothy Parker.
- "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
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Other quotes about: purpose Other quotes by Henry Kissinger.
- "The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes."
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Other quotes about: right day live nothing man life wisdom mind Other quotes by Buddha.
- "On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."
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Other quotes about: happiness never life sin single Other quotes by Buddha.
- "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
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Other quotes about: rule Other quotes by Lao Tzu.
- "The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty."
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Other quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
- "He who would travel happily must travel light."
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Other quotes about: human history men man freedom rain born Other quotes by Frederick Douglas.
- "The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
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Other quotes about: life Other quotes by John Lancaster Spalding.
- "Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry."
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Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
- "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
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Other quotes about: wise person Other quotes by Albert Schweitzer.
- "An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind."
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