Candle Quotes
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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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She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
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Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
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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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He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.
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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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All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.
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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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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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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
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These blessed candles of the night.
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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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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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Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
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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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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
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Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room.
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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.
