SHADOW

Related Subjects: Clouds, Darkness, Light

1. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.—AESOP, The Dog and the Shadow
   

2. Shadow owes its birth to light.—JOHN GAY
   

3. Catch not at the shadow, and lose the substance.—Proverb
   

4. Every light has its shadow.—Proverb
   

5. Hence, horrible shadow!
   Unreal mockery, hence!—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

6. By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight
   Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
   Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
   

7. I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
   And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.—STEVENSON, My Shadow