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Letter "C" » candle
«There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
candle, in two ways, light, mirror, reflects, spreading, spread over, The Mirror, ways
«My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light! Edna St»
«Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.»
«Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.»
«Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| Keywords:
candle
«Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
candle, extinguishes, extinguishing, mind reading, natural world, oppression, scholars, senseless, The Natural
«Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
After the Fire, burn, burned at, burning in, burn in, burn out, burn up, candle, fire, Fire I, fire up, firing, just as, spiritual, spiritual being, spiritual life, take fire, under fire
«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 onto future generations.»
«Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Day
| Keywords:
blowing, candle, extinguishes, extinguishing, flame, nirvana, The Flame
«Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| About:
Birthday
| Keywords:
burned, burned down, burn down, candle, factory, Happy Birthday, sang
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