Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them, Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.
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An honest statesman to a prince, Is like a cedar planted by a spring; The spring bathes the tree's root, the grateful tree Rewards it with his shadow.
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That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.
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We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow shapes that come and go Round with the Sun illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance
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Small service is true service while it lasts. Of humblest friends, bright creature! Scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
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I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun.
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
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I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding place: I ask no other sunshine than The sunshine of his face; Content to let the world go by, To know no gain nor loss; My sinful self my only shame, My glory, all the cross.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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A silvery brook comes stealing From the shadow of its trees, Where slender herbs of the forest stoop Before the entering breeze.
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Lots of comedians have people they try to mimic. I mimic my shadow.
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I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one.. Itwasn't doing what I was doing.
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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
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You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
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The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing.
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