Oscar Wilde Quotes, Bird Quotes, Shadow Quotes

Fantastic shadows of birds

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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

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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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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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The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

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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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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Substance Quotes

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

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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.

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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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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

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Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

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

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There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

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Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

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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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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Death Quotes , Shadow Quotes