Francis Bacon Quotes, Men Quotes, Light Quotes

The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

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In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.

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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

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Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

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As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.

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He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

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

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There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Light Quotes

France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Men Quotes , Light Quotes

The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Light Quotes , Silence Quotes

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

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The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

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The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

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Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight

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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

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Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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