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Letter "S" » shadows
«Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.»
Author: Alexander MacLaren
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«And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.»
Author: Conrad Aiken
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«All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.»
«If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light»
«Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.»
«All sins cast long shadows»
«How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.[?]But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
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«A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.»
«A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses»
«And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows!»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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and so, kingdom, knight, knighted, shadows, So I, The Kingdom, The knight, The Knights
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