With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Comus (l. 340)
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And God said: Let there be light: and there was light.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Genesis (ch. I, v. 3)
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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.
Philip James Bailey
Quotes , Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood)
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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.
Bible
Quotes , 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.
Bible
Quotes , 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.
Bible
Quotes , 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.
Bible
Quotes , 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.
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: The Vision
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For I light my candle from their torches.
Robert Burton
Quotes , 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Nature (ch. III)
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Light (God's eldest daughter!)
Thomas Fuller
Quotes , 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.
Richard Watson Gilder
Quotes , Source: The New Day (pt. IV, song XV)
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Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: Gotz von Berlichingen (I, 24)
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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.
Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker")
Quotes , Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 77), (FitzGerald's translation)
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The prayer of Ajax was for light;
Through all that dark and desperate fight,
The blackness of that noonday night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: The Goblet of Life (st. 8)
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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.
John Milton
Quotes , 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.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Il Penseroso (l. 155)
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Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Il Penseroso (l. 79)
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There swift return
Diurnal, merely to officiate light
Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. 8, l. 21)
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