Victor Hugo Quotes, Jesus Quotes, Light Quotes

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

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Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step

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The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

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Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

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Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

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Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

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The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.

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Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Dream Quotes , Light Quotes

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light .

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The darkness declares the glory of light.

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Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

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As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Animal Quotes , Light Quotes

To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Light Quotes , Air Quotes