“ Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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. ”
- Boris Pasternak- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick,Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Must I hold a candle to my shames? - The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
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“ The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ Death is not extinguishing the light from the Christian; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
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“ Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. ”
- Christopher Hampton- Copy
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“ Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Love is the lamp that lights the universe: without that light …the earth is a barren promontory and man the quintessence of dust. ”
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon- Copy
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“ Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out. ”
- Margot Asquith- Copy
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“ What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 4K
“ When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
- 2.4K
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