Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.
Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.
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.
Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.
Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny.
Sun gives light; torch gives light, candle gives light; smiling gives light.
First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.
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