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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine. - Henry Ward Beecher The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. - Edmund Burke, in a speech at Bristol on declining the poll Thus shadow owes its birth to light. - John Gay, The Persian, Sun, and Cloud (l. 10) (Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (II, 572) Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men? - Ben Jonson, The Forest--Song--That Women are but Men's Shadows The picture of a shadow is a positive thing. - John Locke (1), Essay concerning Human Understanding (bk. II, ch. VIII, par. 5) Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? - Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto II, st. 5) Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. - Bayard Ruskin, Painting Come like shadows, so depart! - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Witches at IV, i) Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss. - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Arragon at II, ix) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii) The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind, And make a checkered shadow on the ground; Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit, And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds, Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns, As if a double hunt were heard at once, Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise; And after conflict such as was supposed The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed, When with a happy storm they were surprised, And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave, We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber, Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds Be unto us as is a nurse's song Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep. - William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (Tamora at II, iii) Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue, (ed. 1842) And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains. [Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), Eclogue (I, 84) When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. - Lin Yutang
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