"See the light" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have fulfilled thy commands and slain the mighty Tsar, and have taken some of his blood." Then said Kartaus: "If thy name is indeed Yaroslav Lasarevich, and thou hast slain the Tsar and taken of his blood, anoint our eyes with it; then we shall see the light of heaven and ...
— The Russian Garland - being Russian Falk Tales • Various
... listen to commonplace excuses. I have been ill used, and know it; and the world shall know it. I am not ignorant of the designs of my enemies; but no cabal shall succeed against me. Thaumaturgos shall not be suppressed! Thaumaturgos shall see the light! Thaumaturgos shall have justice, in spite of all the machinations of malice. Sir, I ...
— Tales & Novels, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth
... of exile & confinement. Man in deed is soule and spirit: Man is rather of celestiall and diuine qualitie, wherin is nothing grosse nor materiall. This body such as now it is, is but the barke & shell of the soule: which must necessarily be broken, if we will be hatched: if we will indeed liue & see the light. We haue it semes, some life, and some sence in vs: but are so croked and contracted, that we cannot so much as stretch out our wings, much lesse take our flight towards heauen, vntill we be disburthened of this earthlie burthen. We looke, but through false spectacles: ...
— A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier • Philippe de Mornay
... day after day thousands upon thousands of heathen are perishing in darkness and sin who might, did their Christian fellow-men use more exertion, have had the glorious gospel preached to them, and have been brought to see the light. I will illustrate the remarks I have made," said Mr Bent, "by examples as they occur to me, keeping, as much as my memory will allow, to the sequence ...
— The Cruise of the Mary Rose - Here and There in the Pacific • William H. G. Kingston
... who failed to see the light, but by strenuous persuasion Honey Tone managed to reclaim enough of his payments to piece ...
— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley
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