"The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind."
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"Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free."
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"Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon."
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"His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language."
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"Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn."
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"The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled."
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"Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness."
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"The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man."
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"The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there."
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"I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God."
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"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."
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"Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts."
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"I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day."
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"The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder."
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"One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed."
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"The chance of a criminal getting caught, is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning."
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"We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder."
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"Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other."
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"The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning."
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"Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning."
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