Saint Augustine Quotes, Light Quotes, Soul Quotes

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

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Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

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O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

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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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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

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Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

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Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step

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Labor is life; thought is light.

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In the midst of darkness, light persists.

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Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Sunset Quotes , Light Quotes

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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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

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

I know when to go and when to stop. I'm the red, the yellow, and the green light. That's me in a nutshell.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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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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It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.

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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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This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

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