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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»
Author: Walter de La Mare
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Dreams
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dreary, gloom, happy hour, infect, infected, light upon, recover, shed, shed light on, sorrowful, trace, waking
«Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer 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»
Author: Theodore Roethke
(Poet)
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basswood, bright blue, finite, freshly, frozen, infinitude, infinitudes, light upon, odor, odors, pines, Shine On, singular, slope, slopes
«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
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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.»
«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.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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deceptive, glimmer, glimmering, Glimmers, light upon, might-have-been, pitch-dark
«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
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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.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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cast, designs, light upon, moves, mysterious, providence, The Ultimate, triumph
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