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Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days

L. Ron Hubbard

Never fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere.

Jonathan Santos

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

George Eliot

To rid ourselves of our shadows - who we are - we must step into either total light or total darkness

Jeremy Preston

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Dickens

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine

Henry Ward Beecher

Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Edward Young

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Percy Shelley

No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away

David Matthew

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.

Felix Adler

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

William Shakespeare

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Blaise Pascal

May your joys be as bright as the morning, your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and your troubles but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.

Old English Blessing

These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.

L. Ron Hubbard

Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears.

Italian Proverb

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

Sir John Suckling

Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality

Albert Einstein

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

John Sterling

And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

Mark Twain

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

Jennie Churchill

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Evita Peron

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