Shadow
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a 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.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.
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