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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.

And God said: Let there be light: and there was light.

I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about to write is finished.

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from Heaven.

For I light my candle from their torches.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Light

Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.

More light!

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.

Blasted with excess of light.

Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.

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.

The Light that Failed.

The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight, The blackness of that noonday night.

In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course.

With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.