Oscar Wilde Quotes, Perception Quotes, Shadow Quotes

Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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

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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

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

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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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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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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

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

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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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You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

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

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

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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

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

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