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«Follow a shadow, it still flies you,Seem to fly it, it will pursue.So court a mistress, she denies you;Let her alone, she will court you.Say, are not women truly, thenStyled but the shadows of us men?»
«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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divide, footsteps, interlace, in a low voice, shadows, Shadows of, sunlight, The Shadows, tree trunk, trunks, voices
«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.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
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elderly, handicapped, In the Shadows, Shadows of, The Shadows, twilight
«Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr.
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Life
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departed, fall under, Shadows of, simulacra, simulacrum, The Shadow, The Shadows
«And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.»
Author: William H. Gass
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Shadows of
«Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.»
«A wave of panic passed over the vessel, and these rough and hardy men, who feared no mortal foe, shook with terror at the shadows of their own minds.»
«I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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broader, dusk, Shadows of, sunset, The Shadows, twilight, venerate, venerated, watery, without emotion