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«Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
evening, increases, setting, shadow, Shadow of the, The Shadow
«Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.»
Author: Ruth Gendler
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
has a, In the Shadows, large, shadow, shadowed, shadowing, small
«Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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Character,
Reputation
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Real Character, real thing, reputation, shadow, The Real Thing, The Shadow, think of, Tree
«A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
attend, false, False friend, False friends, shadow, shines, sun, The Sun
«All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.»
«God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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ages, Age of Man, Age to Age, caves, cave in, cave man, Cave of the, come of age, Considering, dead, God is dead, My state, other states, perhaps, shadow, shown, state, stating, The Dead Man, The State, yet
«A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, hopes, shadow, sunbeams, weaves, weaving, wove, woven
«Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.»
«Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
cast, cast about, cast on, shadow
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