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Each one prays to God according to his own light.

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of i...

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From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine’s room, that window, formerly quite black, at...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive: Part 2

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we tu...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are l...

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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering i...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing i...

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love ca...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to co...

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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Pas...

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On the beach, at dawn:Four small stones clearlyHugging each other.How many kinds of loveMight there ...

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Mary OliverSwan: Poems and Prose Poems

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but r...

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The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has on...

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Max PlanckScientific Autobiography and Other Papers

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, l...

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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there,...

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In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and ...

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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, ac...

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selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.

… remembered summer light, and the luminous inverted ghost of a boy with a parrot on his shoulder.

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light stre...

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Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even thou...

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I live and love in God's peculiar light.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love wo...

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The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster t...

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Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s t...

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Mitch AlbomThe First Phone Call from Heaven

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is Ame...

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Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, em...

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From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire o...

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

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This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others ...

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When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as th...

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Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simp...

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I'll bet he light in the window.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable app...

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I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smel...

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At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear

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Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the st...

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You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the nig...

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And this I know whether the one True Light Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite One flash of ...

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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else onc...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,what secret k...

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Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the ho...

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Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowe...

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I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window

There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple so...

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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because...

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No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more lig...

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The Warrior of the Light knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.He ha...

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

The Warrior of the Light is a believer.Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Be...

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

A Warrior of the Light makes decisions. His soul is as free as the clouds in the sky, but he is comm...

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and yo...

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I love you, more, I think, than I know, but our kind of love isn't a sword. It's a light. Not a fire...

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Peter S. BeagleA Fine and Private Place

Stella, the only planet of my light,Light of my life, and life of my desire,Chief good, whereto my h...

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afr...

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No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the...

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... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but h...

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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard...

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Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason...

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I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in J...

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From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...

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Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the huma...

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Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Dad, will they ever come back?""No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, ...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable soverei...

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We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this uprig...

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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Whi...

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Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And...

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No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is n...

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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent f...

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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space an...

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Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself...

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When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ...

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Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each ...

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Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound.

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Samuel BeckettTexts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

...I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bo...

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Samuel R. DelanyThe Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.