Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
For nothing was simply one thing.
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully!
A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!
Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.
If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
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