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• That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

  Nichiren

  Buddhist, Kindness, Helping Others

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• I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

  Dean Koontz

  Reading, Halos, Looking Forward

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2015

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• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Children, Home, Night

  "A home for Mr Naipaul". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.

  Antonio Porchia

  Night, Light, Self

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• The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

  Cyril Connolly

  Peeking, Way, Common

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• Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

  Rumi

  Ladders, Lifeboats

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• Courage is adversity's lamp.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Courage, Adversity

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• It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Book, Past, Comfort

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• There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Differences, Romance

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Shining

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• Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Ignorance, Darkness, Listening

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2002). “Understanding the Mind: Lorig, an Explanation of the Nature and Functions of the Mind”, p.207, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Halos, Envelopes

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Heart, Flames

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• Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

  Hannah More

  Christian, Light, Darkness

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• Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day. Imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or chart more productive paths to old goals.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Eye, Dark

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• Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Genius, Carrie

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.23

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• Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Revenge, Anger

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• In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Order, Oil, Burning

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• You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.

  Juliet Marillier

  Heart, Glowing, Like You

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Thinking, Yellow

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.212, Penguin

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• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  Ovid

  Reality, Oil, Clean

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• Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

  Michel Foucault

  Art, House, Should

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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Happiness, Moon, Shining

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• If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

  Gladys Taber

  June, Giving, Wish

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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