A Candle Can Not Give Light Burning Itself
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. Votes: 4
William Arthur Ward
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Votes: 4
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' Votes: 4
Steven Wright
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Votes: 4
William Shakespeare
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Votes: 4
Edith Wharton
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. Votes: 4
William Penn
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light! Votes: 4
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out. Votes: 4
Jeanne Moreau
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So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. Votes: 4
Milton Friedman
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When all candles be out, all cats be grey. Votes: 3
John Heywood
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Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle. Votes: 3
James Howell
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Votes: 3
Margaret Fuller
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A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle. Votes: 3
Rumi
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. Votes: 3
Irwin Shaw
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. Votes: 3
Francis of Assisi
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Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference. Votes: 3
Anthea Turner
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Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. Votes: 3
Tim Vine
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Votes: 3
Gautama Buddha
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Votes: 3
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. Votes: 3
Jane Porter
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I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop. Votes: 3
Anthony Jeselnik
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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. Votes: 3
Newt Gingrich
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. Votes: 3
Rabindranath Tagore
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. Votes: 3
Muhammad Naguib
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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle. Votes: 3
Benjamin Franklin
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Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten. Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildan
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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. Votes: 3
Billy Graham
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I hear he liked flowers pretty well.""Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."--"Out, Brief Candle Votes: 3
Kurt Vonnegut
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Candle needs darkness to show his talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it will disappear when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten. Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildan
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. Votes: 3
James Russell Lowell
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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him. Votes: 3
James Joyce
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For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go. Votes: 3
Omar Khayyam
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Candle making is a half-ass business, because the product is only useful half the day, at night. Why not make candles that double as dildos, and make it a whole-ass business. Votes: 3
Jarod Kintz
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That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.' Votes: 3
Richard Dean Anderson
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Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone. Votes: 3
John Selden
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Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle Votes: 3
Gregory Maguire
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There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned. Votes: 3
Nicollette Sheridan
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A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Votes: 1
James Keller
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I have way too many candles. There's always a candle burning at home. Votes: 1
Erin Heatherton
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. Votes: 1
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Votes: 1
Buddha
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. Votes: 1
Dean Inge
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I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. Votes: 1
Mitch Hedberg
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You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' Votes: 1
Jerry Seinfeld
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Votes: 1
Buddha
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. Votes: 1
Bill Bryson
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Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle. Votes: 1
Carrie Underwood
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For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. Votes: 1
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective. Votes: 1
Laura Esquivel
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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop. Votes: 1
Iggy Pop
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Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. Votes: 1
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? Votes: 1
Ralph Marston
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I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.' Votes: 1
Al Seckel
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Lighting one candle Votes: 0
Yosa Buson
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My candle burns at both ends Votes: 0
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Light a candle against the darkness... Votes: 0
Sylvain Reynard
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Man's best candle is his understanding. Votes: 0
James Howell
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Why don't you light that candle ? Votes: 0
Alan Shepard
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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch! Votes: 0
George Bernard Shaw
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Commonsense is the wick of the candle. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle. Votes: 0
Confucius
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Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime. Votes: 0
Charles Dickens
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Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit. Votes: 0
Henry Fielding
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Better light a candle than curse the darkness. Votes: 0
Confucius possibly
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Lighting one candle from another - Winter night Votes: 0
Yosa Buson
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At night a candle's brighter than the sun Votes: 0
Sting
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Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle. Votes: 0
Benjamin Franklin
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The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire. Votes: 0
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow. Votes: 0
William Shakespeare
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I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy. Votes: 0
Jo Brand
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Carry your candle of light to every dark place. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty Akita
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Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness. Votes: 0
James Keller
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A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle. Votes: 0
Thomas Jefferson
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Votes: 0
Rumi
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Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest. Votes: 0
Rumi
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The music paled like a candle and went out ... Votes: 0
Stella Benson
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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle Votes: 0
Rumi
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow Votes: 0
Kate Forsyth
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I wish I were a candle in the darkness. Votes: 0
Mahmoud Darwish
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow... Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind. Votes: 0
Carl Sandburg
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Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire. Votes: 0
Rumi
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Each small candle lights a corner of the dark. Votes: 0
Roger Waters
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le Guin
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. Votes: 0
Jonathan Swift
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First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing. Votes: 0
A.M. Jenkins
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The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit! Votes: 0
Rumi
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Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit. Votes: 0
Harbhajan Singh
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Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room Votes: 0
Aftab Alam
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If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. Votes: 0
Charles Spurgeon
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Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement. Votes: 0
William Arthur Ward
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I was eating beans by candle light for a decade. Votes: 0
Eric Andre
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Education is a candle that kindles and enlightens our mind. Votes: 0
Debasish Mridha
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When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. Votes: 0
George R. R. Martin
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle. Votes: 0
Victor Hugo
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A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. Votes: 0
James Keller
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A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself. Votes: 0
Hillel the Elder
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When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle? Votes: 0
Alan Shepard
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar. Votes: 0
Therese of Lisieux
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Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars. Votes: 0
Matthew Woodring Stover
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It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle. Votes: 0
George Herbert
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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. Votes: 0
Rumi
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Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire Votes: 0
Marilyn Manson
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It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun Votes: 0
Algernon Sidney
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As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. Votes: 0
Richard Paul Evans
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The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. Votes: 0
Giovanni Ruffini
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Sun gives light; torch gives light, candle gives light; smiling gives light. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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a soldier's mind is made of rock; the heart of a candle. Votes: 0
Srinivas Shenoy
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Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle. Votes: 0
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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If you want to own the Sun, you must first understand candle. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. Votes: 0
Henri Rousseau
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Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern. Votes: 0
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. Votes: 0
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me. Votes: 0
Thomas Jefferson
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He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun Votes: 0
Rumi
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To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow. Votes: 0
Frank Delaney
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In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. Votes: 0
George Carlin
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By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space. Votes: 0
Robert Moss
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I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home. Votes: 0
Erin Heatherton
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Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. Votes: 0
Anne Frank
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You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours. Votes: 0
Patrick Kane
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The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few. Votes: 0
Russell Pearce
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Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out. Votes: 0
Matthew Henry
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You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire. Votes: 0
Peter Gabriel
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It is all about a prefix we burn the candle of life for. Votes: 0
Junaid e Mustafa
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The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night. Votes: 0
Robert Bly
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I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends. Votes: 0
Samuel Hoffenstein
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you. Votes: 0
Hardy Kruger
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light. Votes: 0
Christopher Hitchens
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Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends Votes: 0
Josh Stern
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What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle? Votes: 0
Peggy Toney Horton
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Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like. Votes: 0
Emile Zola
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All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle. Votes: 0
Confucius
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In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle. Votes: 0
Al Gore
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The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle. Votes: 0
Herb Caen
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. Votes: 0
Marilyn vos Savant
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Votes: 0
Budha
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Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun. Votes: 0
Mata Amritanandamayi
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It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness. Votes: 0
Confucius
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Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. Votes: 0
Edward Dunlop
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Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love. Votes: 0
Jane Hirshfield
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. Votes: 0
Sri Aurobindo
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The candle cannot burn without fire, similarly, your spiritual greatness cannot be measured without hardships Votes: 0
AbdulAziz Mohammed
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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. Votes: 0
Wallace Stevens
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick. Votes: 0
Tennessee Williams
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Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone. Votes: 0
Lauren Kate
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When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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In the very darkness of a stupid society, even a little candle deserves a great honour! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine. Votes: 0
Hafsat Abiola
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Votes: 0
Gautama Buddha
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Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds. Votes: 0
Rumi
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. Votes: 0
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Darkness can always visit us; when it comes, we shall light a candle to welcome it! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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How beautiful to look at When my prayer Lights a candle of hope In my heart. Votes: 0
Sri Chinmoy
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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly. Votes: 0
Denis Diderot
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She made my heart melt, so I replaced it with a new candle. Love is illuminating. Votes: 0
Jarod Kintz
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The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. Votes: 0
Benjamin Franklin
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To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. Votes: 0
Jose Bergamin
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If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for? Votes: 0
Jane Haddam
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As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith. Votes: 0
Romano Guardini
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If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb. Votes: 0
Nathan Fielder
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As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face Votes: 0
Joseph Campbell
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The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. Votes: 0
David Mitchell
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All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me. Votes: 0
Fred Rogers
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It was a cold night, so I got a fire going. I lit a scented candle. Votes: 0
Jarod Kintz
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You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle. Votes: 0
Irving Greenberg
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. Votes: 0
Anthony Rapp
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To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall. Votes: 0
Alberto Santos-Dumont
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Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. Votes: 0
Frances Osborne
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Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man. Votes: 0
Diogenes Laertius
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The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir. Votes: 0
Carl Sagan
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When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle... Votes: 0
Mooji
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For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes. Votes: 0
Robert Creeley
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Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it. Votes: 0
Elton John
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. Votes: 0
William Ralph Inge
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A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. Votes: 0
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? Votes: 0
Charles Dickens
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Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died. Votes: 0
P. C. Cast
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The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine. Votes: 0
John Steinbeck
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We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us Votes: 0
Jim Morrison
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Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for. Votes: 0
Neil Young
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The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared. Votes: 0
Algernon Blackwood
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If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle. Votes: 0
Ken McCarthy
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. Votes: 0
Robert Burton
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Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle, Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals. Votes: 0
MF Grimm
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My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere. Votes: 0
Normandi Ellis
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One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today. Votes: 0
Gail Thackray
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Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine. Votes: 0
Steven Tyler
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My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness. Votes: 0
Matthew Gray Gubler
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The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle. Votes: 0
Wes Fesler
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[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent. Votes: 0
Paolo Giordano
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Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. Votes: 0
Amy Bloom
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Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself... Votes: 0
Philip Jose Farmer
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I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food! Votes: 0
Carrie Underwood
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A candle that smells like asshole would be an instant hit in prison. Do they make sex-scented candles now? Votes: 0
Jarod Kintz
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Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit. Votes: 0
Rumi
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Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward. Votes: 0
Mata Amritanandamayi
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Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend. Votes: 0
Don McLean
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There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. Votes: 0
Robert Alden
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Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. Votes: 0
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
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The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business. Votes: 0
Ken Auletta
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Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out Votes: 0
Katherine Dunham
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Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision. Votes: 0
Caroline Myss
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The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle. Votes: 0
Walter Cronkite
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. Votes: 0
William Golding
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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. Votes: 0
Walt Whitman
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Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off. Votes: 0
Abbi Glines
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My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true Votes: 0
Sara Shepard
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You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness. Votes: 0
Mort Sahl
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I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes. Votes: 0
Leonard Cohen
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For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette. Votes: 0
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark. Votes: 0
Ivan Illich
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A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story. Votes: 0
Anthony de Mello
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Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over. Votes: 0
Dylan Thomas
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You are a candle in darkness and love is your light, so illuminate the world with the light of your love. Votes: 0
Debasish Mridha
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All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows. Votes: 0
Julia Cameron
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Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself. Votes: 0
Bruce Lee
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Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks Votes: 0
K'naan
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How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun! Votes: 0
Edward Young
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When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darknessâ€"or you can light a candle. Votes: 0
Leonard Ravenhill
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writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. Votes: 0
Alice Childress
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Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind Votes: 0
Eckhart Tolle
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Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it. Votes: 0
Israel Meir Kagan
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A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. Votes: 0
P. G. Wodehouse
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A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least. Votes: 0
Dalai Lama
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Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. Votes: 0
Jimmy Buffett
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I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold. Votes: 0
Virginia Woolf
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The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule. Votes: 0
Mary Higgins Clark
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Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. Votes: 0
Malcolm Gladwell
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I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle...then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival. Votes: 0
Dave Attell
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You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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.. all the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek ... Votes: 0
Margaret Thatcher
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Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned. Votes: 0
Jeph Jacques
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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life Votes: 0
Leo Tolstoy
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One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love. Votes: 0
C.P. Cavafy
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Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. Votes: 0
Ray Bradbury
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Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle. Votes: 0
Fannie Flagg
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They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles. Votes: 0
George Carlin
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Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Votes: 0
William Shakespeare
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. Votes: 0
O. Henry
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Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered. Votes: 0
Hilda Doolittle
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me. Votes: 0
Alice Walker
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Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia. Votes: 0
Jimmy Hoffa
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Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. Votes: 0
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight. Votes: 0
Terry Pratchett
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Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle. Votes: 0
William Gurnall
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On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light. Votes: 0
Nick Gordon
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I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that. Votes: 0
Zachary Levi
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The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think. Votes: 0
Chris Cornell
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn." Votes: 0
Nadine Gordimer
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My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. Votes: 0
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever. Votes: 0
David Wong
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God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen. Votes: 0
Edmond Jabes
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Stop thinking about the easy way out,There's no need to go and blow the candle outBecause you're not done,You're far too young. Votes: 0
Nickelback band
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If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage. Votes: 0
Erma Bombeck
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If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity. Votes: 0
Munia Khan
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. Votes: 0
Nadine Gordimer
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So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are. Votes: 0
Jerry Spinelli
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In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target. Votes: 0
Michael Grant
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It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! Votes: 0
Tracey Ullman
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If you sexy and you know it and you ain't afraid to show it. Put a candle on my motherfu*king back baby blow it. Votes: 0
Rihanna
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If there is moonlight outside, don't stay inside! If there is candle inside, don't stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable to be missed! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade. Votes: 0
George Eliot
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I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul. Votes: 0
Rumi
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Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. Votes: 0
Jennifer Donnelly
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As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation. Votes: 0
William Bradford
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For magic to exist, it must be shared. Always remember to pass along your kindness to others... A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Votes: 0
Michael Delaware
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Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them. Votes: 0
George D. Prentice
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A candle can't cease the darkness, the fear that it may extinguish is itself dark. Adapt to darkness and there will be no darkness within. Votes: 0
Tushar Chauhan
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Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light. Votes: 0
Abdu'l-Bahá
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But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine. Votes: 0
William Blake
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned. Votes: 0
Boris Pasternak
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I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed. Votes: 0
Jeffrey Combs
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We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first." Votes: 0
Tan Twan Eng
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There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle Votes: 0
Michael Faraday
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She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love. Votes: 0
E. M. Forster
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Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. Votes: 0
Leo Tolstoy
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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. Votes: 0
John F. Kennedy
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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day. Votes: 0
Robert Louis Stevenson
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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live. Votes: 0
Leo Tolstoy
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Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die. Votes: 0
Charles Bukowski
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The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night. Votes: 0
Saib Tabrizi
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Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'Engle
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I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? Votes: 0
Rumi
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Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy and the reliability of the warmth have a calming effect. Votes: 0
Cindy Williams
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Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind. Votes: 0
Amy Bloom
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Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. Votes: 0
Ambrose Bierce
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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. Votes: 0
Beverly Sills
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At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars. Votes: 0
Matthew Woodring Stover
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Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives Votes: 0
Anna Quindlen
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That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet. Votes: 0
Bear Grylls
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The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree. Votes: 0
Steven Wright
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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light Votes: 0
Christianity
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...wingsâ€"-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame. Votes: 0
Laini Taylor
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In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods. Votes: 0
Edward Lear
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Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers. Votes: 0
Neal Shusterman
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My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? Votes: 0
Wernher von Braun
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Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym. Votes: 0
Stephen King
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God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within. Votes: 0
Richard Sibbes
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In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. Votes: 0
Christopher Hitchens
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I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle. Votes: 0
Tracy Morgan
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Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink. Votes: 0
Michael Ian Black
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It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it. Votes: 0
Henry Van Dyke
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Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell? Votes: 0
Bill Maher
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She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. Votes: 0
Lewis Carroll
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Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light. Votes: 0
Ion Keith-Falconer
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For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildan
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him. Votes: 0
Vikram Seth
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Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged. Votes: 0
Phillips Brooks
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I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise. Votes: 0
Jenny Eclair
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need. Votes: 0
Ben Harper
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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle... Votes: 0
Tennessee Williams
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun. Votes: 0
Francois Rabelais
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Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go. Votes: 0
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
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Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out. Votes: 0
Hugh Latimer
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Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone. Votes: 0
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She did a far better job than I would've done. Votes: 0
Kristin Cashore
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age. Votes: 0
Anthony Trollope
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A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself. Votes: 0
Mahatma Gandhi
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I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle." Votes: 0
Madeleine L'Engle
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How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light Votes: 0
Mira Grant
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Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away. Votes: 0
William Butler Yeats
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The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face! Votes: 0
George Sterling
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Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring. Votes: 0
Alice Cary
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Playing basketball, I blew out my knee like it was a birthday candle. Sports are so much more fun to play when sitting at a table and opening presents and eating cake. Votes: 0
Jarod Kintz
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The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination. Votes: 0
Michael Leunig
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Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle. Votes: 0
Bill Hybels
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There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system... Votes: 0
Milton Friedman
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When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. Votes: 0
George Carlin
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The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish. Votes: 0
Joe Perry
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I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day. Votes: 0
Laurie David
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I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers. Votes: 0
Jeaniene Frost
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He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. Votes: 0
Ray Bradbury
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How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm? Votes: 0
Ozzy Osbourne
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I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions. Votes: 0
Alastair Campbell
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I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit Votes: 0
Laura Marling
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Nothing against comedy clubs, they work. But when you're sitting with a tablecloth and a candle and an appetizer menu, three-drink minimum, it can feel more like a dinner theater than a live experience. Votes: 0
Doug Stanhope
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Have within you an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before you. Let this inner flame represent for you the idea that you're capable of manifesting miracles in your life. Votes: 0
Wayne Dyer
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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out. Votes: 0
Laurence Sterne
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To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out. Votes: 0
Bill Crawford
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Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay; Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming On the banks of the Wabash, far away. Votes: 0
Theodore Dreiser
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If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better. Votes: 0
Anthony Liccione
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Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame. Votes: 0
William Gilmore Simms
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A Candle Can Not Give Light Burning Itself
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