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 456 LIGHT

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Dark with excessive bright. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. III. L. 380. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gray) And from her native east, To journey through the aery gloom began, Spher'd in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun Was not. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VII. L. 245. There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VIII. L. 21. . | note = | topic = Light | page = 456 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. Omar Khayyam—Rubaiyat. St. 77. FrrzGerald's trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 456 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters from the mossy rock, saw ye the blue-eyed fair? Ossian—Temora. Bk. VI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 456 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ex luce lucellum. Out of light a little profit. Pitt's description of the Window Tax. Also suggested by Robert Lowe, Chancellor, as a motto for matchboxes, when the British Government introduced a match tax, 1871. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 456 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Those having lamps will pass them on to others. Plato—Republic. 328. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 456 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light. Pope;—Epitaph Intended far Sir Isaac Newton | seealso = (See also {{sc|Genesis}}) | topic = Light | page = 456 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nut der Gewissenswurm schwarmt mit der Eule. Sunder undboseGeisterscheun das Licht. Only the worm of conscience consorts with the owl. Sinners and evil spirits shun the fight. Schiller—Liebe und Cabak. V. I. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 456 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. Love's Labour's Lost. Act I Sc. 1. L. 77. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 456 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But it is not necessary to light a candle to the sun. Algernon Sidney—Discourses on Government. Ch. II. Sec.XXIII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 456 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Twas a light that made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort. Sodthey—The Curse of Kehama. Padalon St. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Light | page = 456 }}