Candle Quotes - Page 24

• The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

  Charles Lamb

  Kings, Boys, Law

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
  How commentators each dark passage shun,
  And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

  Edward Young

  Dark, Science, Sun

  'Love of Fame: The Universal Passion' (1725-8) Satire 7, l. 97.

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• I'm able to behave like the guy you see onstage although that's not my entire existence. I might be a portion of that guy. At home, quiet prevails. It's incense, candles and birds chirping. Everything's done to maximize peace and tranquility, because we know when we exit those doors, it's going to be a whole different energy.

  Katt Williams

  Home, Guy, Bird

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• This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

  David Mitchell

  Baby, Love Is, Lust

  David Mitchell (2014). “The Bone Clocks”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

  Ben Harper

  Philosophy, Light, Shining

  Song: Diamonds On The Inside

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• God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.

  Richard Sibbes

  God, Grief, Light

  Richard Sibbes (1812). “The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbs, D.D. Late Master of Catharine-Hall in the University of Oxford, and Preacher of Gray's Inn, London: To which is Prefixed, a Short Memoir of the Author's Life”, p.201

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• The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Wine, Names, Ikea

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.

  Tamara Mellon

  August, Scent, Rooms

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• Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Strive, Admirer

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• Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.

  Harry Styles

  Running, Girlfriend, Dark

  "Oooh! Did Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards have a romantic night in last night?" by Issy Sampson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 4, 2012.

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• I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.

  Lisa Vanderpump

  Design, Pet, Gone

  "Lisa Vanderpump Talks About Leaving Dancing With the Stars and What You Should Never Do at Her Restaurants". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. April 22, 2013.

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• I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "Seven Ways Electronic Books Will Make Us Better Readers" by Steve Leveen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.

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• Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Might Use, Rocks, Flames

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• Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Rocks, Flames, Focus

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• Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Flames, Focus

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• Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Dirty, Angel, Mafia

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 128), 1975.

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• Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

  Edith Sitwell

  Sleep, Reality, Sea

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find out truths themselves; and after they have learned this, they no more need them than a well man needs a staff, or a grown-up child needs a walking-stool.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Men, Miracle

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.249

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• Walking into the great hall for the first time was absolutely incredible - all these effects with all the candles floating in the air, all lit and everything, food on the table, all the flambeaus were lit - it was just incredible, it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.

  Rupert Grint

  Air, Floating, Tables

  Interview with Lizo Mzimba, news.bbc.co.uk. October 24, 2002.

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• There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Important Macbeth, Macbeth Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 4

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• Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.

  Joseph Addison

  Husband, Night, Men

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.48

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• My candle burns at both ends

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Ends

  A Few Figs from Thistles "First Fig" l. 1 (1920)

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• Burning the candle at both ends for God's sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian exercise-for so much better the light. Only one thing in life matters. Being found worthy of the Light of the World in the hour of His visitation. We need have no undue fear for our health if we work hard for the kingdom of God; God will take care of our health if we take care of His cause. In any case it is better to burn out than to rust out.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Hard Work, Exercise

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• For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Ocean, Men

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• I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Long, Important, Torches

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