Torches Quotes

• Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

  Edward Dunlop

  Wisdom, Life Is, Splendid

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• Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Light, Burning, Next

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.65, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, True Joy, Long

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• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

  Felix Adler

  Being Yourself, Hero, Dark

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• Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Hard Work, Knowledge

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Truth, Fog, Gleam

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• The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Light, He Man

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.932, Library of Alexandria

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• Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Light

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• Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Fear, Lying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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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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• When we are in touch with God's joy and peace in us, then we become whole and holy persons. Like living torches we radiate the light and heat of God's compassionate love.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Love, Christian, Light

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• At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

  Gloria Steinem

  Light, People, Age

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• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

  Voltaire

  Math, Steps, Use

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• Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Generations

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Night, Sight

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, True Beauty, Infatuation

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

  Marquis de Sade

  Philosophy, Passion, Thinking

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• Persephone herself is but a voice
  or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
  of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
  among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
  lost bride and her groom.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Dark, Voice

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6848, Delphi Classics

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• Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mistake, Errors, Martyrdom

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.605

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• It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

  George Sand

  Leadership, Light

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.342, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Light, Virtue

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.27

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• There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

  Victor Hugo

  Teacher, Atheist, Religion

  "The History of a Crime". Book by Victor Hugo, 1877.

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• Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

  Henry George

  Flames, Ideas, Noble

  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
  let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

  D. H. Lawrence

  Flower, Blue, Giving

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7123, Delphi Classics

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