Candle Quotes - Page 5

• I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.

  Michael Faraday

  Science, Men, Light

  Michael Faraday (2016). “The Chemical History of a Candle”, p.89, Library of Alexandria

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  Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Angel, Power

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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

  Hair, Flames, Gone

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• He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

  Kit Williams

  Later In Life, Calling, Madness

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• When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

  George Carlin

  Night, Light, Lamps

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

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• I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.

  Traci Bingham

  Beauty, Morning, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Men, Two, Giving

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• People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

  Irwin Shaw

  Dark, Light, People

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• How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

  Jean Ingelow

  Stars, Rocks, Sky

  Jean Ingelow (1863). “Poems”, p.47

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• Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

  Anthea Turner

  Differences, Furniture, Rearranging

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• For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

  Tennessee Williams

  Goodbye, Blow, Lightning

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Light, Darkening, Mines

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• I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

  William Ralph Inge

  Years, No Fear, Palestine

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• Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

  David Gemmell

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

  Joan Collins

  Mean, Rooms, Cashmere

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• Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.

  Michael Faraday

  Life, Science, Thinking

  Michael Faraday, Hermann L. F. Von Helmholtz (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology”, p.170, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Fire, Great Day

  Laurence Sterne (1817). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.515

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• You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Sick, Wrecks, Good Health

  "Jeanne Moreau: 'Living is risking'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2001.

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  Wallace Stevens

  Dark, Light, Imagination

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.701, Univ of California Press

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• It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun

  Algernon Sidney

  Light, Sun

  'Discourses concerning Government' (1698) ch. 2, sect. 23.

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• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

  Robert Burton

  Love, Passion, Power

  The Anatomy of Melancholy pt. 3, sec. 2 (1621 - 1651)

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• Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

  Rumi

  Beauty, Brother, Pain

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• The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, People

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• Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

  Bruce Lee

  Light, Fuel, Consuming

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.179, Tuttle Publishing

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