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• The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. (George Sand) [artist/light/human]
• Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, / Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? / Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme / Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, / Telling a tale not too importunate. (William Morris) [time/rhyme/light]
• The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. (Vladimir Nabokov) [light/darkness]
• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. (William Blake) [face/light]
• Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; / Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. (Thomas Gray) [light/eyes]
• Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. (John Milton) [light]
• Come forth into the light of things; Let nature be your Teacher. (William Wordsworth) [light/nature]
• The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre. (Antonin Artaud) [thing/words/light/darkness]
• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. (Francis Bacon) [fame/light]
• The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. (James Baldwin) [moment/faith/light]
• The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. (Jean Baudrillard) [night/light/day/luxury]
• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. (Henry Ward Beecher) [love/light/love]
• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. (William Blake) [face/light]
• Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without. (Robert Browning) [truth/truth/light]
• When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter. (Albert Camus) [happiness/face/light/night]
• Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. (Miguel De Cervantes) [strange/heavy/light]
• Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [light/virtue]
• Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. (Maurice Chevalier) [love/light]
• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. (Winston Churchill) [knowledge/light]
• It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ( Confucius) [light/darkness]
• There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. (Joseph Conrad) [light]
• In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. (Danny Devito) [order/light/shine/darkness]
• A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. (Benjamin Disraeli) [light]
• I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe. (George Eliot) [human/light/universe]
• We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [give/advantage/light]
• The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [light]
• Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [light/painters/light/willpower]
• I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/countries/light]
• Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. (Thomas Fuller) [knowledge/light]
• Shadow owes its birth to light. (John Gay) [shadow/light]
• If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, Candle making industry threatened. (Newt Gingrich) [light/news]

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