Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
Charles Dickens
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be sho...
BUDDHA All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can ill...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Millions of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the lifespan of that single candle will ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
DEAN INGE A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-p...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shorten...
BUDDHA Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shorten...
BUDDHA BUDDHA A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
FATHER JAMES KELLER A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
UNKNOWN A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle
PROVERB Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for th...
P.G. WODEHOUSE An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO She was always losing customers; it was a miracle she had any left. New ones were always appearing, ...
CéSAR AIRA He lights a cigarette off a candle. These death-tubes, these little crutches or fuses: useful for ge...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG It's a poore sport that's not worth the candle.
[It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.]
GEORGE HERBERT When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is...
PAT SCHNEIDER It snowed and snowed, the whole world over,
Snow swept the world from end to end.
A candle bur...
BORIS PASTERNAK Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by t...
PETER BENENSON Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
ANNE FRANK Justin Martyr explained the distinction and the sameness of the Father and the Son with the analogy ...
THOMAS F. MADDEN Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
MIDRASH Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
THE MIDRASH All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies ...
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but t...
MOHAMMED NEGUIB Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but ...
MOHAMMED NEGUIB Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but t...
MOHAMMED NAGUIB Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Private moments held not a candle to coitus, not even the expensive kind of candle that made the who...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH Candle In The Wind.
ELTON JOHN The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT God’s love is like this candle, if you are this little candle, the whole world around you will see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard.
And the candle by which sh...
LEO TOLSTOY You can blow out a candle, but you cannot blow out a star.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides...
BILL BRYSON The modesty's a candle to thy merit.
HENRY FIELDING The best candle is understanding
WELSH PROVERB The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roo...
T. B. JOSHUA It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
UNKNOWN It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun
CHINESE PROVERBS Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
HENRI ROUSSEAU She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could n...
LEWIS CARROLL No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I do...
JANICE GALLOWAY Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
GEORGE HERBERT Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG When the Illuminati thought of their name, they were hiding in a darkened room with one candle.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS I thought that that was a really Australian story. And I wasn't mad at Dickens about that at all. I ...
PETER CAREY Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
WILLIAM A. WARD Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ...
MARGARET WEIS If we see a candle that's lit, it will be removed.
ANGELA BROWN The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Whatsoever has courage can give courage to others, just as the flame of the candle can light up anot...
MIRRA ALFASSA Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
ANDREW FLETCHER Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
ANDREW FLETCHER, LORD INNERPEFFER (1) She was like a candle in the wind... unreliable.
GARTH MARENGHI Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
CARL SANDBURG A candle is at its brightest in the dark.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.
NASIR-I KHUSRAW Customer: Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?
JEN CAMPBELL I burn the candle at both ends
CHUCK DIGUIDA Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Stay simple like a candle, and never forget to enlighten the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Let your candle light shine today.
MITTA XININDLU Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUIN To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
UNKNOWN To light a candle is to cast a shadow...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB Better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness.
UNKNOWN In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light an...
JOHN SELDEN In my intellect, I may divide (faith and works), just as in the candle I know there is both light an...
JOHN SELDEN The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.
RUSSELL PEARCE Death will be my only peace, many of us await it with a candle in the window.
CANDICE CAIN It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It is better to light 1 candle
than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI What! must I hold a candle to my shames?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The greatest book about giving that I've ever read is 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, about ...
TED TURNER If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shri...
SUZY KASSEM To enlarge and illustrate this - is to set a candle in the sun.
ROBERT BURTON A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I burned what end of the candle I had to burn,
JOE SCHMIDT Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG How many miles to Babylon?
Three-score and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?
Yes,...
SEANAN MCGUIRE ... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a micro...
DAVID WONG Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness
CHINESE PROVERBS Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.
OSHO When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
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