Charles Dickens Quotes, Mirrors 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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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

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Shadow Quotes , World Quotes

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Evil Quotes , Shadow Quotes

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Dawn Quotes

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

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Tags : Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Safe Quotes

I am almost equal to a shadow.

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What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

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Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.

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Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Reign Quotes

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Men Quotes , Shadow Quotes

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

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Tags : Al-Ghazali Quotes , Shadow Quotes , World Quotes

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Desire Quotes

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , God Quotes , Shadow Quotes

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Pain Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Reality Quotes , Shadow Quotes

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Fall 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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Essentials Quotes