"In our rags of light, all dressed to kill."
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"Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling."
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"Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden."
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"The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun."
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"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world."
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"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language."
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"When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight."
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"With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?"
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"Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
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"For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?"
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"I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints."
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"If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro."
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"Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,--who is invariably the devil,--and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,--who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority."
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"It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white."
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"As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it."
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"The prayer of Ajax was for light."
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"In the dark, time feels different than when it is light."
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"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."
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"People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see."
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"What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?"
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