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• A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Wall, Black, Capes

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• Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

  Horace

  Grief, Joy, Morrow

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

  Alexander Pope

  Poetry, Shining, Verses

  Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope, John Gay (1742). “Miscellanies. In Four Volumes”, p.212

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• We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Air, Joy

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• Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like contentment, which sounds like settling, letting the fire go out. Actually, peace of mind allows you to go more deeply into the world and consequently to experience more excitement and ecstasy. The fire burns brighter, fueled by awareness instead of anxiety.

  Jennifer James

  Peace, Giving Up, Mean

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• I saw something stupid in the paper today - a new alarm clock that makes no noise. It's for people who don't like loud noises. Instead, it slowly hits you with light and gets brighter and brighter until you wake up. I already have one of those... it's called a window.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Stupid, Light

  "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Episode #9.31)". Talk-Show, February 14, 2001.

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• The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

  Pico Iyer

  Machines, Use, Information

  "The Joy of Quiet" by Pico Iyer, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 2011.

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• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  Larry Niven

  People

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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• When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.

  Charlie Crist

  Heart, Caring, Leader

  Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.7, Penguin

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• I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Focus, World, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.

  Bob Seger

  Inspirational, Light, Hands

  Song: Rite Of Passage

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• And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Stars, Queens

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

  Kay Hagan

  Children, Desire, Special

  "Sen. Hagan on marriage: 'It's time to move forward'" by Phil Reese, www.washingtonblade.com. March 27, 2013.

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• The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.

  Frank Zappa

  Romantic, Heart, Flames

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• There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

  Stevie Wonder

  Romantic, Stars, Eye

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• Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

  David Limbaugh

  Commitment, America, Optimism

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• Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Want

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• People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Dark, Thinking

  Vance Havner (1986). “The best of Vance Havner”

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• People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.

  Kevin Whately

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

  Andy Murray

  Country, War, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not. If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk. There's no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Risk, Stopping

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• A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

  Ouida

  Littles, Scandal, Tongue

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.218

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• The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Growth

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.

  Colin Powell

  War, America, Optimism

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

  Shaggy

  Sorrow, Needs, Impossible

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