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"Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution."
"For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke."
"As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!"
"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
"I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad."
"To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement."
"I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction."
"No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here."
"Swift as shadow, short as any dream"
"A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow."
"A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground."
"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."
"Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast"
"Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls."
"Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room."
"~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~"
"Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him."
"Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed."
"A man is nothing but breath and shadow."
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it"
