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• Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Dream, Reality

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.38, Penguin

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• I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Cape Cod (Annotated Edition)”, p.137, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Advice, Sun, Ifs

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• To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Health, Mind

  Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers”, p.11, Mango Media Inc.

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• The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Names, Shining, May

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] Poems. Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Letters”, p.380

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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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• Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.

  Walt Disney

  Horse, Heart, America

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• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Sleep, Cities, Elephants

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• Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.

  John Lydon

  Ipods, People, Listening

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• It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

  Mother Teresa

  Oil, Burning

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• A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

  William Butler Yeats

  Spiritual, Expression, Flames

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.

  Diet Eman

  Girl, Mother, Pain

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• Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

  Pliny the Elder

  Miscarriage, Son, Thinking

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• After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp.

  Nicolaas Bloembergen

  War, Reading, Book

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• The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

  Elvis Presley

  Wall, Advice, Littles

  Song: The Walls Have Ears, Album: Girls! Girls! Girls!

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• The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Book, Past, People

  "Essays in Idleness". Book by Yoshida Kenko translated by Donald Keene (p. 13), 1967.

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• The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

  Isabel Allende

  Dark, Corners, Good Will

  Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). “Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

  Austin O'Malley

  Mind, Reason, Used

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• Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

  Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad

  Heart, Reflection, Light

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• Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

  Gautama Buddha

  Shelter, Refuge

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• Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

  Kenny Werner

  Light, Musician, Calling

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• The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness

  Kabir

  Love Is, Soul, Darkness

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• But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.

  Samuel Beckett

  Light, Shining, Shadow

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Waste, Vain

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.60, Classic Books Company

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• Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Burning

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1203, Jazzybee Verlag

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