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«Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.»
«Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.»
«Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.»
«Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.»
«Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine»
«The one had leaves of dark green that beneath were as shining silver, and from each of his countless flowers a dew of silver light was ever falling, and the earth beneath was dappled with the shadows of his fluttering leaves.»
«They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave»
«The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.»
«Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths»

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