“ Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul. ”
- Angelus Silesius- Copy
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“ The abdication of belief makes the behavior small — better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. ”
- Doug MacLeod- Copy
- 116
“ What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair? ”
- Dick Gregory- Copy
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“ That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it. ”
- Frank Tyger- Copy
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“ More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. ”
- Thomas Traherne- Copy
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“ I should like to tell you again of my bitter troubles so that mutually, by recounting our grief, we can lighten each other's sorrow. ”
- The Kanteletar- Copy
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“ Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives. ”
- Sri Madhava- Copy
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“ Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety. ”
- Gladys Taber- Copy
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“ What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured. ”
- Prophet Mohammad- Copy
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“ No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- John Lancaster Spalding- Copy
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“ People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening. ”
- Andie MacDowell- Copy
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