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Light: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, one e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. Water and Wood.
For I light my candle from their torches.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. 2. Memb. 5. Subsec. 1.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.— EMERSON — Nature. Ch. III.
Light (God's eldest daughter!).— FULLER — The Holy and Profane States. Bk. III. Of Building.
Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.— R. W. GILDER — The New Day. Pt. IV.
Song XV. And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.— OMAR KHAYYAM — Rubaiyát. St. 77.
Fitzgerald's trans. The prayer of Ajax was for light.— LONGFELLOW — The Goblet of Life. St. 8.
And from her native east To journey through the aery gloom began, Spher'd in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun Was not.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VII. L. 245.
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.— MILTON — Il Penseroso. L. 155.
Dark with excessive bright.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 380.
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effuence of bright essence increate!— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 1.
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun.— MILTON — Comus. L. 381.
There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII. L. 21.
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.— MILTON — Il Penseroso. L. 79.
With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.— MILTON — Comus. L. 340.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light. S.— POPE — Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac
Newton. Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.— Shakespeare — Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 77.
But it is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.— ALGERNON SIDNEY — Discourses on Government. Ch. II. Sec. 23.
'Twas a light that made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort.— SOUTHEY — The Curse of Kehama. Padalon. St. 2.
An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine.— SIR HENRY TAYLOR — Philip Van Artevelde. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 88.
Where God and Nature met in light.— TENNYSON — In Memoriam. Pt. CXI. St. 5.
A remnant of uneasy light.— WORDSWORTH — The Matron of
Jedborough, and Her Husband.
Nur der Gewissenswurm schwärmt mit der Eule. Sünder und böse Geister scheun das Licht. Only the worm of conscience consorts with the owl. Sinners and evil spirits shun the light.— SCHILLER — Liebe und Cabale. V. I.
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten. Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.— GOETHE — Götz von Berlichingen. I. 24.
Fra l' ombre un lampo solo Basta al nocchier fugace, Che già ritrova il polo, Già riconosce il mar. In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star, and to fix his course.— METASTASIO — Achille. I. 6.