Glow Worms Quotes

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

  John Webster

  Fall, Ambition, Cutting

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.185, Manchester University Press

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• For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dark, Shining, Worms

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.46, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Life And Love, Light Life

  Aleister Crowley (2012). “The Best of the Equinox, Enochian Magic”, p.141, Weiser Books

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• Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

  John Webster

  Shine Bright, Light, Shining

  'The Duchess of Malfi' (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 148

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• We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

  Winston Churchill

  Wisdom, Believe, History

  Quoted in Violet Bonham-Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965)

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• True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Eye, Shining, Heaven

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.444

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• Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spiritual, Twilight, Feelings

  "Hyperion" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853.

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• When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

  James Montgomery

  Eye, Dark, Light

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.323

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• The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Stars, Twilight

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.175, Faber & Faber

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• The young May moon is beaming, love.
  The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love.
  How sweet to rove,
  Through Morna's grove,
  When the drowsy world is dreaming, love!
  Then awake! - the heavens look bright, my dear,
  'Tis never too late for delight, my dear,
  And the best of all ways
  To lengthen our days
  Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!

  Thomas Moore

  Dream, Sweet, Spring

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'The young May moon'

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• He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Light, Attention

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.341

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• The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Book, Reading

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

  Emma Lazarus

  Space, Light, Eagles

  Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.41, Broadview Press

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• For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

  Philip James Bailey

  Light, Poet, Worms

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.411

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• Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

  Heinrich Heine

  Moving, Torches, Worms

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.96

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• We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Worms

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