Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Tree 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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The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

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

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

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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

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

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

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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

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

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There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

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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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