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Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power
Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon
It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,
Common to now the living, now the dead.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood)
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And God said: Let there be light: and there was light.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. I, v. 3)
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I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall
not be put out until what you about to write is finished.
Author: Bible
Source: II Esdras (ch. XIV, v. 25)
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That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. I, v. 9)
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He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a
season to rejoice in his light.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. V, v. 35)
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Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with
you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you:
for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. XII, v. 35)
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Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray,
By passion driven;
But yet the light that led astray,
Was light from Heaven.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: The Vision
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For I light my candle from their torches.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. II, memb. 5, subsec. 1)
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that
intense light will not make it beautiful.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Nature (ch. III)
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Light (God's eldest daughter!)
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Building)
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Against the darkness outer
God's light his likeness takes,
And he from the mighty doubter
The great believer makes.
Author: Richard Watson Gilder
Source: The New Day (pt. IV, song XV)
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More light!
[Ger., Mehr Licht!]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: said to be his last words
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Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Gotz von Berlichingen (I, 24)
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Blasted with excess of light.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Progress of Poesy
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Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: La Legende des Siecles
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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.
Author: Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker")
Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 77), (FitzGerald's translation)
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The Light that Failed.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Source: Title of Story
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The prayer of Ajax was for light;
Through all that dark and desperate fight,
The blackness of that noonday night.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Goblet of Life (st. 8)
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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.]
Author: Metastasio (pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro)
Source: Achille (I, 6)
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With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 340)
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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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 381)
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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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Il Penseroso (l. 155)
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Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
Author: John Milton
Source: Il Penseroso (l. 79)
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There swift return
Diurnal, merely to officiate light
Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. 8, l. 21)
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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!
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 1)
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Moonlight is sculpture.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: None
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There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Author: Edith Wharton
Source: None
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A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.
Author: Austrian Proverb
Source: None
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Light is the symbol of truth.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: None
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Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give me a thousand kisses.
Author: Caius Valerius Catullus
Source: None
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Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Author: Dorothy Thompson
Source: None
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Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.
Author: R. Turnbull
Source: None
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Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.
Author: Irish Proverb
Source: None
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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
Author: James Thurber
Source: None
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: None
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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