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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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“And God said: Let there be light: and there was light.”
Bible Quotes 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.”
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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“More light!
[Ger., Mehr Licht!]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes 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.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Gotz von Berlichingen (I, 24)
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“Blasted with excess of light.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Progress of Poesy
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“Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.”
Victor Hugo Quotes 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.”
Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker") Quotes Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 77), (FitzGerald's translation)
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“The Light that Failed.”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes 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.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes 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.]”
Metastasio (pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro) Quotes Source: Achille (I, 6)
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“With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
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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“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 Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 1)
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