Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.
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The church says 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 a shadow than in the church
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Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.
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Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me
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Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream
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I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.
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Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
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I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got, But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.
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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.
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Glory is the shadow of virtue
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Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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Happiness is the shadow of things past, <br/>Wich fools still take for that which is to be!
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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man
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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them
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Have hope. Though clouds environs now,<br/>And gladness hides her face in scorn,<br/>Put thou the shadow from my brow --<br/>No night but hath its morn.
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