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Let me give light, but let me not be light,
For a light wife doth make a heavy husband.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 5, sc. 1, l. 129-130.
Playing on the idea of "light" as wanton or unchaste.)
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Come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.
(Apocrypha. 2 Esdras, 14:25.)
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For as change is horror,
Virtue is really stubbornness
And only in the light of lost words
Can we imagine our rewards.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers.")
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
(Gaius Sallustius Crispus (c. 86-35/34 B.C.), Roman historian. Jugurtha, LXXXV.)
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The atoms of Democritus
And Newton's particles of light
Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.
(William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau (l. 9-12). . .
The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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The atoms of Democritus
And Newton's particles of light
Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.
(William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau (l. 9-12). . .
The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Sayings in Prose (posthumous).)
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Sayings in Prose (posthumous).)
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