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illuminate
«When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, in darkness, Long Walk, walks
«So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.»
Author: Baha'u'llah
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Unity
| Keywords:
illuminate, illuminating, unity
«Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.»
Author: Gene Wilder
(Actor)
| About:
Movies
| Keywords:
epiphanies, epiphany, illuminate, lighting, matches, topical, woody
«There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
ages, births, commenced, commences, Creator, cycle, cycles, cycle on, cycling, dies, fears, God of death, guru, gurus, illuminate, illuminated, illuminating, in the beginning, name, realized
«There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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glare, glares, glaring, glow, illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, obscures, The Glow
«The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
asks, illuminate, illuminating
«PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ambitious, beg, Beg to, combustible, dictionary, Dr., Dr. Johnson, Dr, Dr Johnson, enlightened, famous, illuminate, inferior, Johnson, last name, last resort, resort, respect to, rubbish, scoundrel, submit, The Last Resort, torch, With all due respect
«To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Adulthood
| Keywords:
adult, Eye of, illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, persons, shines, superficial, The Eye
«The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
and the, eye, Eye of, illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, into, shines, shine at, Shining Through, sun, suns, The Eye, The Man, The Sun