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• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Educational, War, Independent

  1964 UnderstandingMedia, ch.33.

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• The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Art, Fundamentals

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• LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why all that pain. again. and you, such a fighter you fought me over and over with tears and words and promises. you fought for me with honesty and a light so bright it hurts my heart. sweet lorna. at peace now finally no more battles, just light from within a flickering candle in the dark burns with you.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sweet, Hurt, Peace

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• When the candles are out all women are fair.

  Plutarch

  Fairs

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "Conjugal Precepts",

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• As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

  William Bradford

  Light, May, Christianity

  Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford, Thomas Prince, Edward Winslow (1669). “New-England's Memorial”, p.110

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• God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent glass, shine forth like gold in the sun, like diamonds of the purest water, but they shine for God and the angels, not revealing their brightness to men, although at times, by God's ordering, they do shine even for them, by the light of their faith, their virtues, when necessary, similar to a candle put on a candlestick in a room, and lighting the room with all those who are in it. (cf. Mt. 5:15).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Angel, Men

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• To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Dark

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• We meditate so that our minds can be sharp and alert. We chant mantras so that your souls may be ignited like candles. We walk in the light of this beauty.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Light, Soul

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• The candle flame is too hot. It flickers and dances in the over-warm breeze, a breeze that brings no respite from the heat. Soft gossamer wings flutter to and fro in the dark, sprinkling dusty scaled in the circle of light. I'm struggling to resist, but I'm drawn. And then it's to bright, and I am flying too close to the sun, dazzled by the light, fried and melting from the heat, weary in my endeavers to stay airborn. I am so warm. The heat... It's stiffling, overpowering. It wakes me.

  E. L. James

  Struggle, Dark, Light

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• It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

  Boris Pasternak

  Snow, World, Tables

  Boris Pasternak, “Winter Night”

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• It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

  Richard Baxter

  Understanding, Storm, Sound

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• And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion: for you must consider that you live among diseased souls. And you must not lay a stumblingblock in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust, nor make your ornaments their snares; but you must walk among sinful persons, as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you would not foresee, when it is too late to quench it.

  Richard Baxter

  Block, Blow, Fire

  "The Christian directory".

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• I wish I were a candle in the darkness.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Darkness, Wish

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• Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

  William Kurelek

  Drama, Men, Light

  William Kurelek, Joan Murray (1983). “Kurelek's vision of Canada”, McClelland & Stewart

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• The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

  Wes Fesler

  Optimism, Burning, Ends

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• My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Halloween, Eye, Light

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

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• Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle,
  Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals.

  MF Grimm

  Nike, Jesus, Rap

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• But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Passion, Past, Thinking

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Flames, Use

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• When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Gratitude, Grateful, Flames

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• L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Fire, Wind

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• By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taken, Light, Age

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• It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

  George Herbert

  Sports, Poor

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.267

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• The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
  Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
  The tragedy of human love and need?
  Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

  George Sterling

  Brother, Stars, Night

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• Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

  Mark Batterson

  Darkness, Complaining, Needs

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