J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front."
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Mist
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . ."
Robert Frost
Poet
"Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?"
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"The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn."
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"Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others."
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"Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?"
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"remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf."
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"In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping."
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"The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal."
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"It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else."
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