Candle Quotes - Page 4

• God and the imagination are one.

  Wallace Stevens

  Imagination, Candle Lights

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.295, Knopf

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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

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

  James Russell Lowell

  Happiness, Success, Character

  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1871). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.”, p.14

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• Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Men, Light, Illumination

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• When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

  John Heywood

  Cat, Grey

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.13

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• Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

  William Penn

  Book, Reading, Mind

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.446

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• I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home.

  Erin Heatherton

  Home, Burning, Way

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• Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Light, Littles

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• I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see!

  Jeremy Renner

  Light, Needs, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Tiptoes, Melancholy

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• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  Ralph Marston

  Children, Play, Quiet Moments

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• As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

  Joseph Campbell

  White, Holy Places, Faces

  Irishry (1913) "Old Woman"

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• When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

  Alice Walker

  Light, Self, Darkness

  Alice Walker (2010). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.196, The New Press

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• The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

  Maria Monk

  Important, Branches

  Maria MONK (1836). “Awful Disclosures ... of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. Revised with an appendix, etc”, p.87

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• We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

  Jim Morrison

  Song, Trying, Reaching

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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• The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for

  Peter Benenson

  Rights, Amnesty International, Way

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• I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Shining, Want, Littles

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• The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Commitment, Blow

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• You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Birthday, Flower, Rose

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• It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark
  In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

  K'naan

  Eye, Dark, Light

  Song: In The Beginning

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• A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Marijuana, Light, Dungeons

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• Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.

  Tim Vine

  Couple, Blow, Tricks

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• If you want to own the Sun, you must first understand candle.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Want, Firsts, Sun

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• The music paled like a candle and went out.

  Stella Benson

  Music

  Stella Benson (1922). “The Poor Man”

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