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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 21) Hence light and the sacred vessels. [Lat., Hine lucem et pocula sacra.] - Motto, of Cambridge University Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters from the mossy rock, saw ye the blue-eyed fair? - Ossian, Temora (bk. VI) Out of light a little profit. [Lat., Ex luce lucellum.] - William Pitt ("The Younger"), his description of the Window Tax, suggested by Robert Lowe as matchbox motto due to tax Those having lamps will pass them on to others. - Plato (originally Aristocles}, Republic (328) Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light. - Alexander Pope, Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton Now that the sun is gleaming bright, Implore we, bending low, That He, the Uncreated Light, May guide us as we go. - attributed to Adam de St. Victor, old Latin hymn said to have been sung at the death bed of William the Conqueror The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Only the worm of conscience consorts with the owl. Sinners and evil spirits shun the light. [Ger., Nur der Gewissenswurm schwarmt mit der Eule. Sunder und bose Geister scheun das Licht.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Liebe und Cabale (V, I) Light seeking light doth light of light beguile; So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i) But it is not necessary to light a candle to the sun. - Algernon Sidney (Sydney), Discourses on Government (ch. II, sec. XXIII) 'Twas a light that made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort. - Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama--Padalon (st. 2) An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine. - Sir Henry Taylor (2), Philip Van Artevelde (pt. I, act I, sc. 5, l. 88) God and Nature met in light. - Lord Alfred Tennyson Where God and Nature met in light. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (pt. CXI, st. 5) Thy prayer was "Light--more Light"--while Time shall last Thou sawest a glory growing on the night, But not the shadows which that light would cast, Till shadows vanish in the Light of Light. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Inscription on the Window in memory of Caxton, in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, London Prime cheerer, light! of all material beings first and best! Efflux divine. - James Thomson (1) The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. - Thomas Woodrow Wilson The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream. - William Wordsworth, Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a picture of Peete Castle in a storm A remnant of uneasy light. - William Wordsworth, The Matron of Jedborough, and Her Husband But ne'er to a seductive lay let faith be given; Nor deem that "light that leads astray" is light from Heaven. - William Wordsworth, To the Sons of Burns Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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