Jack London Quotes, Judging Quotes, Shadow Quotes

There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Sun Quotes

I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

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I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)

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As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Doubt Quotes , Shadow Quotes

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

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Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

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The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fear Quotes , Shadow Quotes

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

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The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Comfort Quotes

I am almost equal to a shadow.

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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Shadow Quotes

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

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That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

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A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

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The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Shadow Quotes

Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Mirrors Quotes , Shadow Quotes