#shadow

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. ↗

— Amy Levy

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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

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Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ↗

— Claude McKay

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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow. ↗

— Herb Ritts

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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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