Candle Quotes
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All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.
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"I can see in the dark." "That may be so, Mulla. But if it is true, why do you sometimes carry a candle at night?" "To prevent other people from bumping into me."
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We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.
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Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.
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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.
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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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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.
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O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
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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.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
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Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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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.
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These blessed candles of the night.
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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.
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My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true
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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.
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I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.
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All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.
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Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
