Victor Hugo Quotes, Men Quotes, Shadow Quotes

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

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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

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

Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

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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

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

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , People Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Use Quotes

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Kind 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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The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

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

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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

Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Moon Quotes , Shadow Quotes

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

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

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Deeds 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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Shadow Quotes

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Light Quotes , Shadow Quotes

I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sick Quotes , Shadow Quotes