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To embrace the fleeting shadows is to accept the fragility of truth, illuminating first the Gudikon within us all, created anew with every step off the traditional path toward enlightenment.
Author:
Aloysiosi Thorne
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Intermittent silence, like a clandestine whisper from the cosmos, transforms fleeting thoughts into revelations noticed only by trained ears.
Author:
Vivian Lovell
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The warm undertones of quietness remind us that intimacy can bloom in silence, thriving in shared spaces adorned by the vermicular conditions we weave around us.
Author:
Claire Withers
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
Author:
William Yeats
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
Author:
Charles Wolfe
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
Author:
William Wilson
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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
Author:
Thomas Wentworth
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Author:
Voltaire
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
Author:
Dale Turner
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The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
Author:
David Trimble
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
Author:
G. Trevelyan
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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
Author:
William Thompson
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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Author:
Toru Takemitsu
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The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.
Author:
Bruce Sterling
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The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
Author:
George Steiner
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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
Author:
Sophocles
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I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
Author:
Sophocles
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A human being is only breath and shadow.
Author:
Sophocles
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Author:
Sam Snead
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The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Author:
Sam Snead
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
Author:
Tavis Smiley
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You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
Author:
Wayne Shorter
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
Author:
Rod Serling
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Author:
Walter Scott
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Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
Author:
George Schultz
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It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
Author:
Sydney Schanberg
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.
Author:
Herb Ritts
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If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.
Author:
William Rehnquist
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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Author:
Pythagoras
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Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Author:
Plutarch
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
Author:
Pindar
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Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!
Author:
Ryan Phillippe
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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There is a shadow on every page.
Author:
Eugene Ormandy
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When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Author:
Austin O'Malley
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
Author:
Bill Nye
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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Author:
Howard Nemerov
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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
Author:
C. Mills
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Author:
Michelangelo
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I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.
Author:
Todd McFarlane
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For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.
Author:
Ian McDiarmid
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I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
Author:
Marcel Marceau
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Author:
Nelson Mandela
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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
Author:
Maurice Maeterlinck
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There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
Author:
Lucan
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Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
Author:
Lucan
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
Author:
C. Lewis
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I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.
Author:
Laurie Lee
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Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
Author:
Christian Lange
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I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.
Author:
Franklin Lane
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Author:
Helen Keller
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Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
Author:
Janos Kadar
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Author:
Carl Jung
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In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
Author:
Gwen John
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Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Author:
Jerome
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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Author:
Elizabeth Janeway
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Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
Author:
Robert Jackson
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Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
Author:
Joseph Howe
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I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Author:
Whitney Houston
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Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
Author:
David Hockney
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Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.
Author:
Owen Hart
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But on this show, it's a good question because in the 35 shows that we've done now, I've really made a consistent effort to really shadow the directors because in many ways they have to be more prepared than feature directors.
Author:
Anthony Hall
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Author:
Ursula Guin
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All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Author:
Jane Grey
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Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.
Author:
Amy Grant
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Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Author:
Arnold Glasow
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
Author:
Jean Genet
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Shadow owes its birth to light.
Author:
John Gay
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
Author:
Neil Gaiman
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Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
Author:
Matthew Fox
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
Author:
E. Forster
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I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
Author:
George Foreman
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Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
Author:
Peter Fonda
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Author:
Ralph Ellison
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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Author:
Rita Dove
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Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.
Author:
Kyan Douglas
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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
Author:
Jim DeMint
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As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.
Author:
Ezra Cornell
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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
Author:
Nicolaus Copernicus
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We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.
Author:
Kenneth Cooper
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
Author:
Frank Colby
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No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
Author:
Kenneth Clark
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
Author:
Adelbert Chamisso
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Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
Author:
Adelbert Chamisso
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I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
Author:
Adelbert Chamisso
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My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
Author:
Whittaker Chambers
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
Author:
Oswald Chambers
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Author:
Paul Cezanne
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Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.
Author:
Thomas Campion
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And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
Author:
George Cable
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The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
Author:
George Bush
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My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
Author:
Gary Busey
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Author:
Pearl Buck
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Author:
Elizabeth Bowen
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Author:
Matt Blunt
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
Author:
William Blake
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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
Author:
Elizabeth Bishop
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
Author:
Wendell Berry
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Author:
Jean Baudrillard
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The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.
Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Author:
Walter Bagehot
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Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
Author:
Lucille Allard
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Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Author:
Aesop
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Author:
Aesop
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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.
Author:
Aeschylus
