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the darkness
«She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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candles, curse, glow, glowed, glows, the darkness, warmed
«That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
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ache, ached, advance, causes, commence, commenced, commences, darkness, error, fill, gladness, happen, imperfection, improve, on trial, pass, pass through, reach, the darkness, The Light, The Trial, Trials, trial and error, triumph, yield, yield up
«People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.»
«The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
gloom, radiance, the darkness
«The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.»
Author: Harry Levin
| About:
Comedy
| Keywords:
aspect, comedies, comedy, conditions, darkness, laughing, potentiality, protean, responding, the darkness, tragedy, transcended, transcending
«To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.»
«The day is done, and the darkness, Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward, From an eagle in his flight»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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downward, eagle, falls, feather, flight, in flight, the darkness, The Eagles, The Wings, waft, wafted, wings
«Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
co, cos, forest, islands, mingle, mingling, roots, the darkness, underground