Charles Dickens Quotes
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
Charles Dickens
Quotes to Explore
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Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.
Don McLean
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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.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.
Katherine Dunham
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I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.
Emma Orczy
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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
Vivienne Westwood
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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.
Michael Faraday
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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
Confucius
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Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister’s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I’ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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The Bible’s claim to truth is not only far more urgent than Homer’s, it is tyrannical—it excludes all other claims. The world of the Scripture stories is not satisfied with claiming to be a historically true reality—it insists that it is the only real world, is destined for autocracy.
Erich Auerbach
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
Edmund Hillary
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Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
William Shakespeare
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Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
Charles Dickens
