Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Character Quotes, Light Quotes

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

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God and Nature met in light.

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The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Mean Quotes , Light Quotes

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.

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What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?

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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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O dearer far than light and life are dear.

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If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting, often, of lights, streets, houses, human beings, beautiful or grotesque, which will weave itself into the moment for ever.

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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

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There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

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His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

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Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.

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