Shade Quotes - Page 15

• The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.

  Thomas Keating

  Buddhism, Important, Different

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Country, Lying

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Brother, Different, Causes

  "Song: 'Colours of Islam' ('Colours of Islam')". 1998.

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• We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Hours, Ill, Productive

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.147

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• Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid,
  Force many a shining youth into the shade,
  Not to redeem his time, but his estate,
  And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.

  William Cowper

  Play, Shining, Debt

  William Cowper (1830). “Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]”, p.145

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• The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade
  Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
  Where all his long anxieties forgot
  Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,
  Or recollected only to gild o'er
  And add a smile to what was sweet before,
  He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
  Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,
  Improve the remnant of his wasted span.
  And having lived a trifler, die a man.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Retirement, Thinking

  William Cowper (1847). “Poems, with a memoir of the author”, p.146

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• To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

  Alexander Pope

  Soul, Paradise, Carnations

  Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.204

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• And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade,
  Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Criticism, Holes

  Alexander Pope (1789). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...”, p.198

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• O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

  Euripides

  Lasts, Virtue

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• A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

  John Milton

  Flames, Light, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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• Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Women, Woods, Plant

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.54

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• With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight,
  From Life's glad morning to its solemn night;
  Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show
  There's light above me by the shade I throw.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Morning, Night, Light

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• If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Sunshine, Destiny

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.78, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain,
  Treat those of common parts with proud disdain;
  The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide,
  They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride;
  While yet but mere probationers for fame,
  They seize the honor they should then disclaim:
  Honor so hurried to the light must fade,
  The lasting laurels nourish in the shade.

  George Crabbe

  Pride, Men, Light

  George Crabbe (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.158

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• Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Moon, Drawing, People

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• What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay?
  A breath one single gasp must puff away!
  A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade!
  A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade!
  A stream that silently but swiftly glides
  To meet eternity's immeasured tides!
  A being, lost alike by pain or joy?
  A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy!
  Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone,
  Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.

  Alexander Brome

  Life, Art, Pain

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• They love the country, and none else, who seek
  For their own sake its silence and its shade.
  Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
  Susceptible of pity, or a mind
  Cultured and capable of sober thought.

  William Cowper

  Country, Heart, Silence

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.73

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• Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

  George Herbert

  Tree

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.309

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• Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Sacrifice, Goddess

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.255

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• Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Faith, Lines, Keenness

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hacterus ... : with a Portrait of the Author”, p.49

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• Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

  Honore de Balzac

  Feelings, Ignorant, Pieces

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• A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour,
  Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within
  His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,
  Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog
  Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.
  Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,
  No more sits listening by his den, but steals
  Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field,
  And crops its juicy-blossoms.

  William C. Bryant

  Dog, Sleep, Doors

  William Cullen Bryant, “Noon”

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• Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Sunset, Orange Trees

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• The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Book, Rain, Clouds

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.21

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• Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.

  James Gates Percival

  Farewell, Night, Lasts

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