Candle Quotes - Page 3

• In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

  Hardy Kruger

  Heart, Cathedrals, Lit

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• If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

  Mark McCormack

  Reading, School, Gone

  Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School”, p.9, Profile Books

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• You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Light, Justice, Darkness

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• Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

  Muhammad Naguib

  Fear, Color, Religion

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• Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

  Jane Porter

  Men, Flames, Lamps

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.105

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• Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

  James Howell

  Men, Snuff, Fingers

  "English Proverbs". Book by James Howell, 1659.

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• To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

  Jose Bergamin

  Wisdom, Light, Devil

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• Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Light, Flames, Order

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• Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Life, Stars, Love Is

  "Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith". Book by Matthew Woodring Stover, April 2, 2005.

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• If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stars, Saws, Enough

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.53, Scholastic UK

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• Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Opportunity, Light

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• A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Thank You, Appreciation, Teacher

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• A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Burned, Stills, Millions

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• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Wisdom, Spiritual

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• Sun gives light; torch gives light, candle gives light; smiling gives light.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Giving, Torches

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• In winter I get up at night
  And dress by yellow candle-light.
  In summer quite the other way,
  I have to go to bed by day.
  
  I have to go to bed and see
  The birds still hopping on the tree,
  Or hear the grown-up people's feet
  Still going past me in the street.
  
  And does it not seem hard to you,
  When all the sky is clear and blue,
  And I should like so much to play,
  To have to go to bed by day?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Spring, Winter

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

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• You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Blow

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• You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid! ... Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration ... is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.

  Michael Faraday

  Life, Growing Up, Science

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• Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Blow, Flying, Literature

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• The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Morning, Moon

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Night, Light

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.74, Doubleday

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• Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Death, Humorous, Flames

  "Wrestling Archangels". Book by Bede Clarke, 2001.

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