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• Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

  Joseph Addison

  Clouds, Break Through, Serenity

  'The Spectator' no. 381, 17 May 1712

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• The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wrath, Light, Grace

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• Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

  Rumi

  Sky, Take Me, Your Presence

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• The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

  Stendhal

  Beautiful, Art, Memories

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• Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can't help but feel there's new possibilities out there.

  Marisha Pessl

  Crazy, Blue, Sky

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• My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

  James Otis

  Sister, Dear God, Eternity

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• I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Thinking, Rocks

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• The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Pride, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Lectures and Biographical Sketches”

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• The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

  Lee Iacocca

  Affection, Economy, Strikes

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• Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise Him as it rolls like drums in the march of the God of armies? Do not the mountains praise Him when the woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Doth not the lightning write His name in letters of fire? Hath not the whole earth a voice? And shall I, can I, silent be?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Army, Fire

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Gleanings Among The Sheaves”, p.68, SHELDON AND COMPANY

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• Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Poetry Is

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.40

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• Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

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• Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

  Edward Abbey

  Clouds, Air, Weather

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.107, University of Arizona Press

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• Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

  Augustus Hare

  Good Day, Clouds, Black

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• I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Literature, Kool Aid

  "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, (Ch. I : Black Shiny FBI Shoes), 1968.

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• The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Fear, Character

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the power of God; the demonstration of argument and the logic of the schools, but not the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, the all-convincing logic of His lightning flash, such as convinced Saul before the Damascus gate. When the Spirit was outpoured the disciples were all filled with power from on high, the most unlettered tongue could silence gainsayers, and with its new fire burn its way through obstacles as flames fanned by mighty winds sweep through forests.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  School, Fire, Flames

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• Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Running, Laughter

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• A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

  James Dickey

  Rain, Poetry, Poetic

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

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• I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

  Howard Stern

  People, Irritated, Knows

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• The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

  Horace

  Fall, Fate, Light

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Carmina, II. 10. 9, 1922.

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• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  Randall Jarrell

  Men, Poetry, Six

  1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.

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• He must be lightning slow.

  Ron Atkinson

  Football, Athlete

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

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• I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

  Oliver Stone

  Believe, Leader, World

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• The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

  Mary Stewart

  Law, Mills

  Mary Stewart (1981). “Touch not the cat”, Fawcett Books

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