“ Sacrifice alone, bare and unrelieved, is ghastly, unnatural, and dead; but self-sacrifice, illuminated by love, is warmth, and life. ”
- Frederick William Robertson- Copy
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“ The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. ”
- Ernest Dimnet- Copy
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“ The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
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“ The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. ”
- Pierre Abelard- Copy
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“ To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ To offer to our tribe, as storytellers, narratives which are absent of a dark side is a terrible disservice. I'm just fighting for the right for a film to be stirring and brilliant and illuminating. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is used. ”
- J. Walter Thompson- Copy
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“ I don't have a musical background. But I do enjoy all kinds of music. It's an expression of the human spirit that illuminates our humanity. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political. ”
- Gene Wilder- Copy
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“ Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. ”
- Emil Nolde- Copy
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“ The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? ”
- Edwin Markham- Copy
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“ Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. ”
- Brenda Ueland- Copy
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“ His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it. ”
- Paterculus- Copy
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“ Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. ”
- Henri Matisse- Copy
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“ The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ Love inspires, illuminates, designates and leads the way. ”
- Mary Baker Eddy- Copy
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“ History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity. ”
- Cicero- Copy
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“ To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness… ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue — the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word, that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare. ”
- David Wark Griffiths- Copy
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“ Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All hallows Eve… And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. ”
- Kim Elizabeth- Copy
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“ Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves — that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives — experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ beauty has its own heavenly language, loftier than the voices of tongues and lips. It is a timeless language, common to all humanity, a calm lake that attracts the singing rivulets to its depth and makes them silent. Only our spirits can understand beauty, or live and grow with it… ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ There is something greater and purer than what the mouth utters. Silence illuminates our souls, whispers to our hearts, and brings them together. Silence separates us from ourselves, makes us sail the firmament of spirit, and brings us closer to Heaven; it makes us feel that bodies are no more than prisons and that this world is only a place of exile. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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