"Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats."
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"There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius."
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"The truth is the light and the light is the truth."
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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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"Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light."
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"She can't see the way your eyes will light up when you smile."
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"It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now."
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"It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns."
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"Light black. From pole to pole."
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"One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe."
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"In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours."
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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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"Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein."
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"A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light."
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"Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free."
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"The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good."
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"The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning."
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"Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease."
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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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"Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey."
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