With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Bamboo shadows sweep the stairs but no dust is stirred; moonlight reaches to the bottom of the pond but no trace is left in the water.
Loss and Possession death and life are one There falls no shadow where there shines no sun
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
To confront a person with his own shadow is to show him his own light.
Keep your face in the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.