Alexander Pope Quotes, Envy Quotes, Shadow Quotes

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

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

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Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.

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

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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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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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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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To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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

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

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

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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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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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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Life Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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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