George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
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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?
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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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.
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Now a few words of advice to boys, and especially to those of my own race, my heart goes out to them as they face life's struggles.
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Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
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Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.
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Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.
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Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.
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Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
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You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.
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Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.
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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.
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A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
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The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.
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There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
