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"We are the Sun with all the different kinds of Light."
"Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light"
"He who stands on tiptoe doesn't stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn't go far. He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can't know who he really is. He who has power over others can't empower himself. He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures."
"God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason."
"Become the person you were meant to be, light your inner fire and follow your heart's desire."
"Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by."
"I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her - the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection..."
"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."
"Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines."
"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."
"I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me."
"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."
"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
"Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an"
"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."
"If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you."
"Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same."
"Bathe in the splendor of your own Light."
"In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light."