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«A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace»
«Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.»
Author: George MacDonald | Keywords: hang, light upon
«All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of wate»
«So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: light upon
«And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, / And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: firmament, light upon
«And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: / And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.»
«There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.»
«LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.»
«Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? / Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: light upon
«The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.»