Famous quotes containing the words light, operations and/or empire:
“Ye are the light of the world.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:14.
From the Sermon on the Mount.
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.”
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)
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