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Where is the land of Luthany,Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.'Pierce thy heart to...

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Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my...

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Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through...

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In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint y...

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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by li...

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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are b...

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I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, aga...

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Frederick BuechnerSecrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the ...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,...

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, t...

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize th...

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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. W...

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The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the nig...

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These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from...

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The light that brings the dawn.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...

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I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, t...

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Rear your children in light and truth. Teach them to pray while they are young. Read to them from th...

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So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the ...

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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...

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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...

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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined....

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Voyages IIIInfinite consanguinity it bears This tendered theme of you that light Retrieves from sea ...

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I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want...

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It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

On the edge of a tropical ocean, in a thousand reflections of the silver light of an invisible moon,...

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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. Ther...

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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the m...

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He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It wa...

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That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote fr...

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I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solel...

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by i...

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sick of it whatever it's called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what's here

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not for...

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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership bec...

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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait '...

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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from...

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Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think...

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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the nig...

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Italo CalvinoThe Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a strick...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's wh...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry flung himself out from behind the bush and pulled out his wand."EXPECTO PATRONUM!" he yelled.A...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, ...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes ...

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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are...

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And you, Ring-bearer,’ she said, turning to Frodo. ‘I come to you last who are not last in my though...

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its ru...

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his...

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hittin...

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The light was as intense as a love affair. I was blinded, delighted, not just because it was warm an...

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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I...

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There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven n...

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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what...

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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to she...

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You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way o...

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The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until...

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and...

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Here upon earth there is life, and then death,Dawn, and later nightfall,Fire, and the quenching of e...

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Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes i...

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Lead kindly Light amid the encircling gloom Lead Thou me on! The night is dark and I am far from...

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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...

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Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy,With purpose to explore or to disturbThe secrets of your real...

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Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine...

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Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light --...

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John MuirThe Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threa...

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We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threa...

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We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threa...

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We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threa...

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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light depri...

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To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true...

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John RuskinThe Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition. 39 vols.

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of ru...

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In the soul where Christ savingly is, there He lives. He not only lives without it, so as violently ...

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One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. T...

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Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receiv...

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