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“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.”

Wells May Soul Adventure Wall Shadow Concern Consistency Self Reliance Misunderstood Reliance Inconsistency Great Souls Little Minds

Book:Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

“The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself.”

Ifs Should May Whole Light Order Sun Objects Shadow Window Shining South Casts Drawing Height Length Vary

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.”

Humans May Made Lying Found Human Nature Shadow Creator Deities Umbrella Sunbeams Covert

Book:Emblems

Source: Emblems

“As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.”

Wells May Play Light Seems Please Shadow Resources Painter Relief Modesty Charming Sculpture Boldness Sculptors Paradoxical Etching

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists

“To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.”

May Effort Youth Shadow Ruins Awful Score Incentives Wrecks Visualization

Author:Mary Church Terrell

“Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place”

May Long Light Action Memories Sleep Influence Long Time Shadow Flash Stature

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.”

Source: ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume): Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror Series, as well as Weird Fiction, Fantasy Stories of the Weird West, The Cthulhu Mythos Tales and more

“Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.”

World May Faces Given Grows Dark Hair Shadow Legends Dark Tower Series

Author:Stephen King

“If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he who in our daily sight Seems but a figure mean and small, Outlined in Fame's illusive light, May stalk, a silhouette sublime, Across the canvas of his time.”

Ifs Men May Mean Light Seems Figures Wall Fame Shadow Sight Giants Canvas Sublime Stalking Mould Silhouettes

Author:John Townsend Trowbridge

“While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.”

Years May Moments Reality Might Would Be Able Past Stage Development Shapes Capable Hundred Shadow Complaining Glimpse Mourn Traveller Disappearance Insensitive Stages Of Development

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“The stately heavens which glory doth array, are mirrors of God's admirable might; there, whence forth spreads the night, forth springs the day. He fix'd the fountains of this temporal light, where stately stars enstall'd, some stand, some stray, all sparks of his great power (though small) yet bright. By what none utter can, no, not conceive. All of his greatness, shadows may perceive.”

May Light Might Night Heaven Stars Greatness Spring Glory Shadow Mirrors Spread Perceive Sparks Fountain Admirable Great Power

Author:William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“There may be a soul of the world, there may be ... a psychical side, of which we are not aware, to every atom in the universe, and the psychical side, like the moon, may show us ever but the one face, the other forever in the shadow; but, at best, this is only a conjecture, it presents no solid foundation upon which to rest a theory.”

World May Soul Shows Faces Universe Sides Forever Theory Moon Shadow Foundation Atoms Conjecture Solid Foundation

Author:John Grier Hibben

“The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.”

“The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there.”

Ifs May Dies Powerful Millions Our Lives Shadow Clouds Currents Nuclear Bombs Seventies Opposing Arsenal Mushrooms

Author:Johann Hari

“you may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.”

May Wife Imagine Husband Shadow My Husband

Book:Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States

Source: Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me...you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”

Knows May Ideas Seems Faces Lost Lord Shadow No Idea Leaving Me Peril Leading Me Lord God Right Road Shadow Of Death Never Leave Me

Author:Thomas Merton

“We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.”

Source: Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house

“dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.”

Mind May Country Dream Shadow Eternity Edges Confusion Nerves Refuge Sanctuary Cowardly Actual Life

Book:Fantastic Traveller

Source: Fantastic Traveller

“Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated. ... Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us.”

People May Mean Done Pain Culture Dark Trouble Shadow Workers Urges Fearful Isolated Reluctant Family Friends Co Worker

Author:Susan Wittig Albert

“Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow.”

Men Want May Doe Soul Moving Shadow Weight Depth Brilliant Great Things Entertaining Really Great Earnestness

Book:Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin

Source: Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin

“But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love, O perfect life in perfect labor writ, O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, -- What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse, What least defect or shadow of defect, What rumor, tattled by an enemy, Of inference loose, what lack of grace Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's -- Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee, Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?”

Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier

“The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.”

May Has Beens Decision Shadow Leaving Myth Paradise Departure

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.”

Love Mind Heart May Ends Done Hands Belief Alive Mines Shadow Settling Pale Console Lingering

Book:The Personal History of David Copperfield

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield

“Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!”

Love May Stills Soul Reality Faces Shadow My Soul Thee Pointing Melting

Book:A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

“There are a number of things that I'm trying to get into the books. There's a meta-fictional aspect, if I may use that pretentious word, to writing anything. You're writing in the shadow of all the people that have gone before and, in a way, you're having a dialogue with them. As someone who's read J.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard and all the great fantasists before, this is almost my answer to them.”

People Ifs Way Writing Trying May Book Use Answers Numbers Gone Shadow Aspect Dialogue Pretentious

Author:George R. R. Martin

“The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.”

Knows May Joy Nations Clear Sky Messages Shadow Foundation Uncertainty Good Times Divides Brotherhood Christmas Message Christmas Time Clear Skies

Author:Ferdinand Marcos

“On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!”

Life May Real Shadow Real Life Zero Followers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!”

May Nature Shadow Crosses Bridges

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we cannot discover any other way than through our enemies. Our friends seldom tell us these things; they are our friends precisely because they are able to overlook or ignore this part of us. The enemy is thus not merely a hurdle to be leaped on the way to God. The enemy can be the way to God. We cannot come to terms with our shadow except through our enemies.”

Way May Able Term Enemy Shadow Aspect Hurdle

Author:Walter Wink

“A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.”

Source: The Celtic Twilight

“The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.”

May Has Beens Art Lying Brain Teaching Art Is Shadow Instinct Application Academic Venus Misled Canon Nymphs Parthenon

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.”

World Heart May Body Moving Universe Force Elements Shadow Direct Universal Driven Gravity Reverse Fragments Subtlety Nature Love Convergence

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment.”

May Dream Light Spiritual Next Path Shadow Essence Guides Sunset Fades Twilight Awakened Radiant Fade Away Inner Light

Author:Surya Das

“The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.”

Love May Joy Marriage Morning Sorrow Shadow Fades Sunlight Brides Bride And Groom

Author:Minna Antrim

“That's a point that Dan Ellsberg has made for years. He said it's kind of like if you and I go into a grocery store to rob it, and I have a gun. The guy may give you the money in the cash register. I'm using the gun even if I don't shoot. Well that's nuclear weapons - essential to post-war deterrence - they cast a shadow over everything.”

Ifs Giving Years Wells Kind May Made Said War Guy Essentials Weapons Gun Shadow Casts Stores Nuclear Posts Cash Nuclear Weapons Groceries Register Grocery Stores Post War Deterrence

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”

Knows Men May Happiness Pleasure Shadow Importance Following

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.”

“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing - the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”

Knows World Giving Feels May Doe Made Whole Hands Earth Wish Loses Break Hair Taste Shadow Longing Tongue Senses Crave Craving Berries Hue Foreshadowing Ripeness

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].”

Source: An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine

“A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.”

May Stills Stars Voice Walks Half Wise Heard Land Kings Mountain Singing Daughter Shadow Woods Tongue Graves Bitter Awake Ireland Godly Crafty Mountain Top Voice Singing

Book:The Land of Heart's Desire

Source: The Land of Heart's Desire

“When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.”

Ifs Feels May Dream Pain Remember Song Forget Tree Shadow Rain Green Rose Plant Grass Twilight Wet Showers Shady Nightingales Sad Song Green Grass Death Poems Cypresses Cypress Trees

Author:Christina Rossetti

“Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion." Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will be more perilous.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”

May Age Turns Fall Shadow Wheels Wheel Of Time

Book:The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'

“A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame. A rose may earn another name, So call it love; So call it love I will, And love is like the sea, Which changes constantly, And yet is still The same.”

May Stills Names Love Is Sea Kissing Shadow And Love Blame Rose Flames Colour Love Is Like

Author:Tanith Lee

“All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.”

Men May Matter Seems Lasts Fall Sun Imagine Missing One Day Mountain Shadow Rain All Things Breaths Shining Significant Streams

Book:Princeps' Fury

Source: Princeps' Fury

“Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?”

May Littles Two Home Wish Voice Dark Morning Happened Missing Wall Shadow Green Very Good Circles Princess Thick Cream Hello Jumping October Amused Carriages Prettiest Chuckles Little Princess

Author:Mira Grant

“I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons.”

Ifs May Light Remember Darkness Son Praying Approach Lows Shadow Aspect Brave Casts Size Horizon Thanksgiving Exceed I Pray Specks Praying For You Misgivings

Author:Jim Elliot

“There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.”

Men World Wells May Sometimes Moving Evil Belief Return Evolution Shadow Track Awful Twilight Sacraments Caves Dwellers Unknown Worlds

Book:The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen

Source: The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen

“As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I have made myself a dream to dream of its rising, that has gentled my nights. Let me desire and wish well the life these trees may live when I no longer rise in the mornings to be pleased with the green of them shining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them.”

World Wells May Made Dream Age Desire Night Wish Sound Voice Morning Tree Wind Shadow Let Me Green Shining Spread Rising Horizon

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.”

Thinking Heart May Bigs Happens Running Fall Loses Worry My Heart Shadow Spite Over You Automobile Germs Frivolous Swallowing Carefree Unconcerned

Author:Jean Webster