Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have read more

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:
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He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself his own dungeon.

With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.

With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall
not be put out until what you read more

I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall
not be put out until what you about to write is finished.

In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot
to find the polar star and to read more

In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot
to find the polar star and to fix his course.
[It., Fra l' ombre un lampo solo
Basta al nocchier fugace
Che gia ritrova il polo,
Gia riconosce il mar.]

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world.

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world.