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• A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.

  Joan Rivers

  Children, Memorable, Hot

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• See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of oil. ... It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveler on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Hunting, Games

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.294, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confidence, Three, Way

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames; very likely he had seen with his own eyes and smelt with his own nostrils the sulphurous fumes of Hell escaping from some fissure in the rocks. Looking upwards, he beheld ... the incorruptible firmament, wherein the stars hung like so many lamps.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Eye, Science

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• For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Dark, Science

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• And in the evening, everywhere
  Along the roadside, up and down,
  I see the golden torches flare
  Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

  Frank Dempster Sherman

  Torches, Golden, Towns

  Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”

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• If I had all the money in the world, I'd be like, "Great, let's just keep doing it!" I, unfortunately, have not won the lottery or found the magic genie lamp.

  Zachary Levi

  Magic, World, Genies

  "Zachary Levi Talks HEROES REBORN, the TANGLED TV Series, The Nerd Machine, Comic-Con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss;
  Heaven once a week;
  The next world's gladness prepossest in this;
  A day to seek;
  Eternity in time; the steps by which
  We climb above all ages: lamps that light
  Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich
  And full redemption of the whole week's flight.

  Henry Vaughan

  Dark, Men, Light

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a glass bowl. ... When the bowl was heated over a spirit lamp, an extremely violent explosion occurred, which shattered it into small fragments. On another occasion a drop was heated in a test-tube, and exploded with such violence that the glass splinters cut deep into my face and hands, and hurt other people who were standing some distance off in the room.

  Ascanio Sobrero

  Hurt, Distance, Cutting

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• The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched.

  Richard Owen

  Blessed, Science, Epidemics

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• A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

  Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

  Eye, Design, Grandfather

  "This Porsche is still driven". Interview with John O'Dell, articles.latimes.com. November 6, 2002.

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• I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Struggle, Mean

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Land, History, Noble

  "Santa Filomena" st. 10 (1858).

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• A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Education, Reading, Writing

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• I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
  But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
  Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.

  Ernest Dowson

  Fall, Wine, Night

  Ernest Dowson, (2013). “The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

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• On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Illumination, Race, People

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.515, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

  Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

  Tyrants, Would Be, Trials

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• Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity."

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Air, Smoking

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• Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey. To those who suffer, God does not provide arguments which explain everything; rather, his response is that of an accompanying presence, a history of goodness which touches every story of suffering and opens up a ray of light.

  Pope Francis

  Night, Journey, Light

  Pope Francis (2016). “I Believe: The Promise of the Creed”, p.114, Orbis Books

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• The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Genius

  Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn (1849). “Works”, p.178

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• So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Airports, Light

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• I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

  Stephen Fry

  Baby, Sorry, Breathing Life

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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• Today, the reason we haven't found our grail, the key to who we are as women, is because we look for it in worlds of false power, the very worlds that took it away from us in the first place. Neither men nor work can restore our lost scepter. Nothing in this world can take us home. Only the radar in our hearts can do that, and when it does, ... 'We will light up like lamps, and the world will never be the same again.'

  Marianne Williamson

  Home, Heart, Men

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• My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
  It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
  For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat,
  With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Night, Sky, Tea

  1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, no.30,'The Lamplighter', stanza1.

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• What does a lamp do? The lamp is like a horse that is running but stays put. But by virtue of being a lamp it illuminates the space around it. Therefore, the practice of purifying one's soul, of living virtuously, has tremendous impacts upon the ethics of the surrounding society.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Running, Horse, Impact

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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