“ We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ”
- Ben Sweetland- Copy
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“ Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from age to age. ”
- Kelly Miller- Copy
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“ It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket. ”
- Frank Deford- Copy
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“ Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age. ”
- Kelly Millar- Copy
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“ Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. ”
- Jane Porter- Copy
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“ It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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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. ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
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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. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
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“ We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. ”
- Whoopi Goldberg- Copy
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“ It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ 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
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“ Patriotism: Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. ”
- Felix Adler- Copy
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“ They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it. ”
- Claud Adrian Helvetius- Copy
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“ May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. ”
- Pierre de Coubertin- Copy
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“ Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. ”
- Lucretius- Copy
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“ Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans — born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. ”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy- Copy
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“ A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus 'the most pious Edward" of England used to lay his royal hand upon the ailing subjects and make them whole — a crowd of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great essay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath Heaven given his hand, They presently amend, as the "Doctor" in Macbeth hath it… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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