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Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses th

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. – H.M. Tomlinson

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Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. – H.M. Tomlinson

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There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers. – H.M. Tomlinson

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I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino

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Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. – Sir Isaac Newton

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Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. – Aretaeus

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