William Shakespeare Quotes, Shadow Quotes, Substance Quotes

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

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

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

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The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

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Fantastic shadows of birds

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

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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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We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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

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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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