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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Word is a shadow of a deed.
Democritus
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow if I fail, if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Whitney Houston
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Hilaire Belloc
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela
Even one hair has a shadow.
Publilius Syrus
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph Addison
Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,-though I shall not be near thee; Sing,-though I shall never hear thee!
Charles Wolfe
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Ralph Ellison
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.
William Rehnquist
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
Kenneth Clark
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel de Montaigne
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
David Trimble
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