LIGHT

Related Subjects: Candle, Day, Electricity, Glory, Shadow, Sight

1. Light, even though it passes through pollution, is not polluted.—ST. AUGUSTINE

2. God's first creature, which was light.—BACON, New Atlantis
   

3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.—Bible, Genesis 1:3
   

4. Ye are the light of the world.—Bible, Matthew 5:14
   

5. Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.—EMERSON, Nature
   

6. Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.—THOMAS FULLER, Holy and Profane State
   

7. Lamps make oil-spots, and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.—GOETHE, Spruche in Prosa
   

8. The tolerance and equity of light
   That gives as freely to the shrinking flower
   As to the great oak flaring to the wind.—EDWIN MARKHAM, Lincoln, the Man of the People
   

9. Where glowing embers through the room,
   Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.—MILTON, Il Penseroso
   

10. He that has light within his own clear breast
    May sit i' the center and enjoy bright day;
    But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
    Benighted walks under the midday sun.—MILTON, Comus
    

11. Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom;
    Lead thou me on!—CARDINAL NEWMAN, The Pillar of the Cloud
    

12. If you desire to see my light, you must minister oil to my lamp.—Proverb
    

13. You stand in your own light.—Proverb
    

14. Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

15. Put out the light, and then put out the light:
    If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
    I can again thy former light restore
    Should I repent me; but once put out thy light,
    Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
    I know not where is that Promethean heat
    That can thy light relume.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

16. The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.—SWIFT, The Battle of the Books
    

17. There are two ways of spreading light: to be
    The candle or the mirror that reflects it.—EDITH WHARTON, Vesalius in Zante
    

18. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.—WOODRO'W WILSON
    

19. A light to guide, a rod
    To check the erring, and reprove.—WORDSWORTH, Ode to Duty