Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us
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Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree
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Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false
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Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
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There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.
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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
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Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.
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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
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I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz<br/>or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: <br/>I love you as one loves certain dark things,<br/>secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
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Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place
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The reputation of a man is like his shadow: it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size
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A woman is like your shadow - follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows
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OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.
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Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice
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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows
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Like our shadows, <br/>Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
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Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind
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And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. (Judges 9: 15)
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The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
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