“ Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave — oh! leave the light of Hope behind. ”
- Thomas Campbell- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1K
“ An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ”
- James Albert Michener- Copy
- 2K
“ Unless a love of virtue light the flame,Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;He hides behind a magisterial airHis own offences, and strips others' bare. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 517
“ Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. ”
- Johan August Strindberg- Copy
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“ 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 from within. ”
- Elizabeth Kubler Ross- Copy
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“ A Christian's wit is inoffensive light,A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 1.7K
“ How much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. ”
- Alan Cohen- Copy
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“ Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it. ”
- Claud Adrian Helvetius- Copy
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“ Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. ”
- Ned Rorem- Copy
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“ The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sunshine shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend. ”
- Traditional Irish blessing- Copy
- 2K
“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light — and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau — into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being. ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes. ”
- Blaise Cendrars Sauser- Copy
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“ The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west! ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 791
“ Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others. ”
- John Mason Brown- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come. ”
- Merlin Stone- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. ”
- William James- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 1.3K
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