Best Beam Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes

“Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!”

May Light Heaven Holy Eternal Essence Eternity Thee Beam Offspring Hail Holy Light

Book:The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons

Source: The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons

“Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?”

Knows Light Artist Know How Failing Thousand Shining Concentration Beam

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near, as a circle of friends. ... You cannot feel yourself out of doors; plain, sky, and mountains ray beauty which you feel. You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire. Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature.”

Source: Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple

“With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.”

Should Mind Names Common Sun Influence Particular Authority Intellectual Deserve Weight Errors Superiors Remembered Horizon Posterity Beam

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.”

Firsts Shows Light Eye Sun Weak Sight Distance Clouds Harm Rising Globes Sunrise Beam Hasty Sun Rise

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

“Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.”

Sometimes Dream Waiting Hours Fate Sky Strikes Weather Elusive Beam Fulfilment

Book:Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics

Source: Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics

“I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.”

Realizing Connections Mark Nervous Dust Impulse Cosmos Internals Over It Gestures Steel Insects Impossibility Beam Primal Nervous System Crawling

Author:Joel-Peter Witkin

“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.”

Men Giving Mother Lays Brave Faithful Knees Tenderness Shed Strain Beam Fondness

Book:Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life

“At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.”

Lasts Heaven Golden Gates Mates Shaking Beam Gloomy Aurora

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.”

Source: American Gods

“Step not beyond the beam of the balance.”

Steps Balance Beam

Author:Pythagoras

“Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.”

Heart Littles Hours Chance Beauty Sweet Empty Opening Dawn Breasts Jewels Beam Loveless

Book:Alan Seeger: the complete works

Source: Alan Seeger: the complete works

“Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.”

Firsts Hands Fall Sun Path West Clouds Rainbow Melting Beam Hue

Author:Mark Akenside

“On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.”

Art Made Two Eye Wise Shining Lamps Beam Refining

Book:Alphonsus, king of Arragon. James the Fourth. George-a-Greene, the pinner of Wakefield. Specimen of the History of George-a-Greene. Ballad of the Jolly Pinder of Wakefield. Poems

Source: Alphonsus, king of Arragon. James the Fourth. George-a-Greene, the pinner of Wakefield. Specimen of the History of George-a-Greene. Ballad of the Jolly Pinder of Wakefield. Poems

“True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.”

Forever Genius Unity Repeats Novelty Beam True Genius

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.”

Fairs Shining Shakes Flood Locks Sweetest Beam Trembling Radiance Venus

Book:The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: with a memoir

Source: The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: with a memoir

“Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.”

Depends Demand Opposites Extremes Scales Cease Momentum Beam Equilibrium Cheapness

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.”

Play Hands Light Situation Masters Essence Intellect Wit Tricks Delicate Flash Delightful Beam Light Up

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.”

Knows Men May Soul Dream Running Lying Stars Half Beauty Worship Delight Setting Settings Wander Streams Altars Beam Ripple Gleam Afar Wands

Book:The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...

Source: The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...

“We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points Himself. We mortals astonish Him as much as He us. But it is this Being of the matter; there lies the knot with which we choke ourselves. As soon as you say Me, a God, a Nature, so soon you jump off from your stool and hang from the beam. Yes, that word is the hangman. Take God out of the dictionary, and you would have Him in the street.”

Thinking Littles Matter Lying Certain Secret Atheism Streets Information Mortals Dictionary Choke Beam Knots Incline Stools Hangman

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Earth Joy Ocean Importance Atmosphere Glimpse Majesty Beam Microbes

Author:Sylvia Earle

“It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.”

Men Intellectual Intelligence Beam Timber

Book:Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus

“Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.”

“Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.”

Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons

“Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.”

Way Wings Flash Lightning Beam

Book:The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch

Source: The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch

“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!”