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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Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

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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

I am almost equal to a shadow.

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A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Glitter Quotes

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Sun Quotes

I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

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

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

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In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Life Is Quotes

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

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To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Empty Quotes

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

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Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Flying Quotes , Shadow 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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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men 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

There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

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

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

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May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Shadow Quotes , May Quotes