Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Life Quotes, Shadow Quotes

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Desire 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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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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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Evil Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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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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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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

I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)

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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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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Comfort Quotes

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Power Quotes , Shadow Quotes

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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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

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

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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

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