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“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
Charles Dickens
“The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church”
Ferdinand Magellan
“And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.”
Conrad Aiken
“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 Calderon de la Barca
“All sins cast long shadows”
Irish Sayings
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
Christopher Morley
“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
Thomas Paine
“Men are the dreams of a shadow.”
Pindar
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