The Better Part (1901)
Context: I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself. Prizefighters die young, gourmands get the gout, hate hurts worse the man who nurses it, and all selfishness robs the mind of its divine insight, and cheats the soul that would know. Mind alone is eternal. He, watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 10.
Reported in James Freeman Clarke, Book of Worship for the Congregation and the Home (1852), p. 431.
Representative American Negroes, an essay from The Negro Problem, a collection of essays written in 1903 by leading African Americans.
"To the Tune of ‘Like a Dream’", in The White Pony: An Anthology Of Chinese Poetry (G. Allen & Unwin, 1949), ed. Robert Payne, p. 300
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Mister Monday (2003), p. 241.
“You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.”
Variant: We chase away the shadows around each other.
Source: The Indigo Spell
“The great hulking eminence of the stone-age mound stood out as an ominous dark shadow.”
Source: The Bone House (2011), p. 162
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
"Creation", as quoted in "Shattered Identities and Contested Images: Reflections of Poetry and History in 20th-Century Vietnam" by Neil Jamieson, in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1992, p. 89, and in Understanding Vietnam by Neil Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), ISBN 978-0520916586, p. 164
