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«A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
admitted, beau, beaux, cards, in short, laughs, looking glass, mistress, motions, observe, presence of mind, sigh, sighs, solemnly, The Shadow
«All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.- Louis Kahn»
«Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow»
«Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me»
Author: Bible
| About:
Death and dying,
God
| Keywords:
rod, staff, staffed, staffs, The Shadow, The Valley, valley
«Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow»
«Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Dreams,
Evil,
Revolution,
Soul
| Keywords:
accordance, eager, lurks, mystics, propose, proposing, refashion, revolutionaries, The Shadow, Utopia, Utopias
«Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.»
«Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Character,
Reputation
| Keywords:
Real Character, real thing, reputation, shadow, The Real Thing, The Shadow, think of, Tree
«A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| Keywords:
formed, reside, resided, resides, residing, substance, The Shadow
«Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
six, The Shadow, The Valley, valley
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