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Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day. - James Abram Garfield Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes. - Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day (pt. IV, song XV) Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, said to be his last words Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotz von Berlichingen (I, 24) Blasted with excess of light. - Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children! - Julius Charles Hare Like our dawn, merely a sob of light. - Victor Hugo, La Legende des Siecles Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) Light is, as it were, a divine humidity. - Joseph Joubert And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. - Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker"), The Rubaiyat (st. 77), (FitzGerald's translation) The Light that Failed. - Rudyard Kipling, Title of Story The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight, The blackness of that noonday night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Goblet of Life (st. 8) Light is the symbol of truth. - James Russell Lowell And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. - Nelson Mandela In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course. [It., Fra l' ombre un lampo solo Basta al nocchier fugace Che gia ritrova il polo, Gia riconosce il mar.] - Metastasio (pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro), Achille (I, 6) "Let there be light!" said God; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep; and, from her native east, To journey through the aery gloom began, Spher'd in a radiant cloud. - John Milton The sacred influence of light appears. - John Milton With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light. - John Milton, Comus (l. 340) He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. - John Milton, Comus (l. 381) But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light. - John Milton, Il Penseroso (l. 155) Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. - John Milton, Il Penseroso (l. 79) Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 1) Dark with excessive bright. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 380) And from her native east, To journey through the aery gloom began, Spher'd in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun Was not. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 245) Displaying page 2 of 3 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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