Mark Twain Quotes, Writing Quotes, Light Quotes

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.

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God and Nature met in light.

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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

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Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

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On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

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

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Light Quotes , Order Quotes

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

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

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

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I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.

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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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Labor is life; thought is light.

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Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

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God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

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