"Light within" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I awoke with the Spirit as a light within me surpassing that of the sun. I put off my hermit's garb, and dressed myself as of old. From a hiding-place I took the treasure which I had brought from the city. A ship went sailing past. I hailed it, was taken aboard, and landed at Antioch. There I bought the camel ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... they say, the woman of the saeter haunts Hund's house, and if she sees a light within she taps upon the door, and no man may keep her out. Many, at different times, have tried to occupy the house, but strange tales are told of them. 'Men do not live at Hund's saeter,' said my old grey-haired friend, concluding ...
— John Ingerfield and Other Stories • Jerome K. Jerome
... "The light within the room had turned to blackness, not the darkness of night, in which objects are seen dimly, for I could see clearly and without difficulty. But it was the negation of light; objects were presented to my eyes, if I may say so, without ...
— The Great God Pan • Arthur Machen
... intervene screens between the lights at the sides of the stage and that part of the picture you desire to have dark; vice versa with the foreground. Particular points or characters can be more brilliantly lighted than others by placing at the side of the stage a strong light within a large box, open at one side, and lined with bright reflectors. Light of different colors can be thrown successively on a picture, and made to blend one with another, by placing the various colored fires in boxes three feet square, open ...
— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head
... tried in vain to discover who the charitable female was who had brought us provisions on the previous evening. It confirmed my belief, however, that Woman is the same all the world over; and that in every place some are to be found who, according to the light within them, endeavour to do their duty in the sight of God, by affording sympathy and help to their ...
— Saved from the Sea - The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures • W.H.G. Kingston
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