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• Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

  Victor Hugo

  Spiritual, Jobs, Real

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• It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.

  Laini Taylor

  Kindness, Talking, Waiting

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• It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.

  Truman Capote

  Friday, Fall, Sunday

  Truman Capote, Eleanor Perry, Frank Perry (1971). “Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia”

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• Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil.

  Susan Cooper

  Uncles, Hero, Fighting

  Susan Cooper (2010). “The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever you are physically,' he said, 'Male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy -- all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are the flame.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Heart, Warrior

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Powerful, Light, Tree

  "The Bahá'í Temple: House of Worship of a World Faith". Book edited by National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'í of the United States, 1942.

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• Indeed, "Hera said. ―Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again —my power. For weeks I‘ve grown weaker as my essence was used to grow him a new form." ―So you‘re like a heat lamp,"Leo guessed. ―Or fertilizer.

  Rick Riordan

  Essence, Gaea, Heat

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• to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

  Pearl S. Buck

  Light, Soul, Mind

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• Come on, Ella. Sleep green.' Ignoring him, I got into bed wearing a T-shirt and boxer shorts printed with penguins. I reached over to the nightstand and flipped off the lamp. A moment of silence, and then I heard a lecherous murmur. 'I like your penguins.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sleep, Silence, Bed

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.256, Macmillan

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• He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

  Max Lucado

  Feet, Promise, Balls

  Max Lucado (2009). “Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition”, p.48, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Ocean, Biblical

  "Life Thoughts".

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• Light that is One though the lamps be many.

  Robin Williamson

  Light, Spirituality, Spiritual Awareness

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• The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wisdom, Age, Evening

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• Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

  John Burroughs

  Spring, Vision, Woods

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• Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Good Night, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

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• Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth
  Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning.
  And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth,
  There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Light, Giving

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1120, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb.
  Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom.
  Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire.
  Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire.
  So man and woman will keep their trust,
  Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust.
  Yea, each with the other will lose and win,
  Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in.
  For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife,
  And the word of Love is the Word of Life.
  And they that go with the Word unsaid,
  Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Running, Spring

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1970). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.

  Herman Melville

  Hope, Heart, Cutting

  Herman Melville, General Press (2016). “Moby Dick”, p.242, GENERAL PRESS

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• She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Fans, Dresses, Gansey

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.128, Scholastic Inc.

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• Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Dream, Moving, Book

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Oil, Smell, Mountain

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• She walks away, and I am too stunned to follow her. At the end of the hallways she turns and says, "Have a piece of cake for me, all right? The chocolate. It's delicious." She smiles a strange, twisted smile, and adds," I love you, you know." And then she's gone. I stand alone in the blue light coming from the lamp above me, and I understand: She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallways. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was a dauntless.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Love You, Light

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• She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Way, Pale

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1678, Simon and Schuster

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• We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed.

  Justin Bieber

  Couple, Casualties, Majors

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• Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream of a great and broken city, because when the day starts its business I'll have to stop, these are night-time tales that vanish in the sunlight like vampire dust

  Jeet Thayil

  Dream, Moon, Night

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