Abraham Kuyper Quotes, Dark Quotes, Glasses Quotes

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Father Quotes , Dark Quotes

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Flower Quotes , Dark Quotes

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Children Quotes , Dark Quotes

There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see.

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Tags : Alan McGlashan Quotes , Dark Quotes , Order Quotes

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

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To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Dark Quotes , Son Quotes

So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Art Quotes , Dark Quotes

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

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Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Distance Quotes , Dark Quotes

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

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Tags : Bret Harte Quotes , Dark Quotes , Wish Quotes

Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Dark Quotes , Wings Quotes

When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Real Quotes , Dark Quotes

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Heart Quotes , Dark Quotes

The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Dark Quotes

The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Lying Quotes , Dark Quotes

The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Math Quotes , Dark Quotes

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Dark Quotes

In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

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Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Fall Quotes , Dark Quotes