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• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Honor, Rewards

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• Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

  Rumi

  Dancing, Soul, World

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• Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Grief, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.251, Xist Publishing

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• Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Wipe, Literature

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• It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Children, Twilight

  Speech at dedication of Hubert H. Humphrey Building,Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1977

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• It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

  Kate Chopin

  Fire, Light, Glowing

  Kate Chopin (2015). “The Awakening & Other Short Stories”, p.201, Booklassic

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• In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

  John Lyly

  Anger, Substance, Arguing

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.20, Psychology Press

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• If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Fall, Past, Events

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.1206, Penguin

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• A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

  John Updike

  Mean, Artist, Light

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.667, Random House

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• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  Ralph Ellison

  Writing, Past, Constant

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.19, Vintage

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• The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Decision, Leaving, Departure

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Anchors, Sea, Tree

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1932, Delphi Classics

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• We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

  Carl Jung

  Past, Men, Personality

  "The Collected Works".

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• I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Believe, Home

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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• PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn
  Indicative that suns go down;
  The notice to the startled grass
  That darkness is about to pass.

  Emily Dickinson

  Long, Darkness, Sun

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.223, Harvard University Press

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• I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

  Gerald Massey

  Freedom, Ocean, Heart

  Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1854). “Poems and ballads ... Containing the Ballad of babe Christabel ... Revised and corrected by the author”, p.26

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• The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Thinking, Enemy

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Words”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime.

  Steven Furtick

  Integrity, Dark, Moments

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2010

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• A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.

  Li-Young Lee

  Doors, Wind, Slam

  Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.16, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
  For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
  And stand together yet not too near together:
  For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
  And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Marriage, Wedding, Heart

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Imagination, Earth

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• As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

  John Dewey

  Long, Substance, Bigs

  John Dewey (1985). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1931-1932”, p.163, SIU Press

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• We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.

  Ansel Adams

  Light, Wind, Yellow

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• The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness.

  John French Sloan

  Eye, Artist, Light

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• All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Wind, Stories, Ends

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