Candle Quotes
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To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
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All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.
Clark Ashton Smith
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward
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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.
Nicollette Sheridan
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O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
William Butler Yeats
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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.
Spider Robinson
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
Rumi
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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
Rumi
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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."
Nasreddin
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Ray Bradbury
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Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
William Arthur Ward
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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
Charles Dickens
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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.
Sara Teasdale
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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.
William Penn
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
Victor Hugo
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These blessed candles of the night.
William Shakespeare
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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.
William Gurnall
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My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true
Sara Shepard
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I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.
Kate Thornton
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Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room.
Aftab Alam
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All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.
Confucius
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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.
Milton Friedman