Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day. . . In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?
Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.
We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.
He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he can accomplish this if he judges himself and all he does. For then he sheds all fears and lifts fear that has fallen down. But if he does not judge himself, he will be judged from on high, and this judgment will come upon him in the guise of countless things, and all the things in the world will become messengers of God who carry out the judgment on this man.
