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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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

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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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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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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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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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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The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

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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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Essentials Quotes

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

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

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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Throat 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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Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

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

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

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