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The Shadows
«I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
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Prayer
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breaking away, break away, break of day, flee, greet, greeted, greetings, greets, profound, sends, send away, shadows, The Shadows
«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
«Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.»
Author: Roger Waters
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barrels, dim, hurled, merciless, rifles, scare, Scared to Death, The Blind, The Shadows, The Wall, torturer, unfeeling
«Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.»
Author: Thomas Arnold
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begun, cooled, disappear, eager, frequently, happiest, infirmities, midday, middle age, of age, The Shadows
«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
«Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these!»
Author: Charles Dickens
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alas, bare, bleak, bleakest, Come and Go, fade, fade away, fading away, loveliest, plain, rapidly, round, shadows, The Shadows, tom, winter
«Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
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Manners
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display, Shadows of, The Shadows
«Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.»
«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