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 LIFE

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A narrow isthmus betwixt time and eternity. Young—On Pleasure. Letter. III. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lillo) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 455 }}

{{Hoyt topic|Light}} {{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Now that the sun is gleaming bright, Implore we, bending low, That He, the Uncreated Light, May guide us as wc go. Attributed to Adam de Saint Victor. Old Latin Hymn said to have been sung at the death-bed of William the Conqueror. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 455 }}
 * 1) LIGHT ##

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead. Bailey—Festus. Sc. Water and Wood. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Life | page = 455 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from Heaven. Burns—The Vision. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Wordsworth}}) | topic = | page = 455 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For I light my candle from their torches. | author = Burton | work = Anatomy of Melancholy. | place = Pt. III. Sect. II. Memb. 5. Subsec. 1. . | note = | topic = Life | page = 455 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hinc lucem et pocula sacra. Hence light and the sacred vessels. Motto of Cambridge University. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 455 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. Emerson—Nature. Ch. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 455 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. IlEsdras. XIV. 25. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 455 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Light (God's eldest daughter!). Fuller—The Holy and Profane States. III. Bk. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 455 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Genesis. I. 3. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Pope}}) | topic = Light | page = 455 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes. R. W. Gilder—The New Day. Pt. IV. Sana XV." | author = | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic = Light | page = 455 }}