Lamps Quotes - Page 19

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

David Byrne

Song, Writing, Animal

"Stop Making Sense". Documentary, Music, 1984.

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Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

Mother Teresa

Jesus, Looks, Burning

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.22, New World Library

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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

Hilary Mantel

Running, Cat, Sheep

"Beyond Black". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2005.

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The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

Saint John Chrysostom

Light, Skulls, Bishops

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To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so great a quantity as to furnish loading for many camels. The use made of it is not for the purpose of food, but as an unguent for the cure of cutaneous distempers in men and cattle, as well as other complaints, and it is also good for burning. In the surrounding country no other oil is used in their lamps, and people come from distant parts to procure it.

Marco Polo

Country, Lying, Science

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It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.

Rudyard Kipling

Eye, Heart, Blood

Rudyard Kipling, General Press (2017). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.43, GENERAL PRESS

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This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:

Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.

So is all conditioned existence to be seen.

Gautama Buddha

Summer, Dream, Clouds

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In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that this wherefrom it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern; others, the mind and still others, the pilot of the world. Trismegistus calls it a "visible God"; Sophocles' Electra, "that which gazes upon all things." And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Beautiful, Stars, Mind

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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

Hannah More

Prayer, Book, Reading

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One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Mother, Stars, Flames

Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1848). “Poems of early and after years ... Illustrated by E. Leutze”, p.73

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A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.

Phyllis McGinley

Girl, Reading, College

Phyllis McGinley (1959). “the Province of the Heart”

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Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual, Dark, Make Others Happy

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In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Kindness, Grief, Compassion

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[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

William Mathews

Age, Phrases, Force

William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.93, Belford Bros.

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Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.

John of the Cross

Eye, Over You, Desire

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In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

Men, Smell, Oratory

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God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Oil, Grace

Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.367

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The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Successful, Men, Talking

"Letters and social aims". Inspiration. Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1875.

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God is the electricity and we are the lamps.

Marianne Williamson

Electricity

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Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

Bonaventure

Oil, Charity, Chastity

Saint Bonaventure, Aeterna Press (1881). “The Life of Christ”, p.99, Aeterna Press

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I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes... right now, I'd settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp.

Ingrid Weir

Dream, Beach, Vacation

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One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

Mark Nepo

Heart, Shine On, Glasses

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I was in a panto last year, Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. I played the wick. I got the sack because I was too well-oiled every night.

Frank Carson

Funny, Humor, Night

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Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks. We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night.

Jake Halpern

Real, Night, Light

Source: www.mtv.com

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Let us buy atleast one product of Khadi fabric and help light a lamp of Diwali in the homes of the poor.

Narendra Modi

Motivation, Home, Light

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