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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB
Better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness.
UNKNOWN
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
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness
CHINESE PROVERBS
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
CONFUCIUS
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Remember, it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness.
FRANK GORSHIN
It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.
DR. CARL SAGAN
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by t...
PETER BENENSON
Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness
TERRY PRATCHETT
Don’t criticize or curse at darkness; be wise and never forget to light a candle.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR
There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darknes...
JODI PICOULT
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
HELEN KELLER
Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have per...
AL SECKEL
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
HANNAH MORE
I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
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You can walk in the Light or you can grope around in the dark because there is no walking with Jesus...
R. ALAN WOODS
Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord 'Twas an unhappy Division that has been m...
JOHN SELDEN
A candle is at its brightest in the dark.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
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
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun
CHINESE PROVERBS
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
"One need not to light a candle to feel the warmth from the Light of Christ" ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS
Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.
UNKNOWN
When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS...
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
ADLAI STEVENSON
Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very...
D. L. MOODY
The world is in balance <...>. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LEGUIN
A light purse is a heavy Curse.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly -Robert H. Schuller
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
Let your candle light shine today.
MITTA XININDLU
All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can ill...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.
LAUREN KATE
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Taking a step in the dark is braver than taking a leap in light.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.
ERIC ANDRE
Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.
IRANIAN PROVERB
How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies ...
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER
People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.
C.J. ROBERTS
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
SASHA AZEVEDO
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
HELEN KELLER
It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.
HELEN ROWLAND
Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.
G.R. GOPINATH
For I light my candle from their torches.
ROBERT BURTON
The painful Preacher, like a candle bright, Consumes himself in giving others Light.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance.
GREG RUCKA
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
It's better than sitting in the dark.
JEFF BENNETT
Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew a light at Calais
SAMUEL JOHNSON
not the end of the world, just darkness over everything," Charlie cheerfully said. "it gets dark - t...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
The best way to see divine light is to put out thy own candle
THOMAS FULLER
If you put out another's candle, you also will be in the dark
GERMAN PROVERB
"Be a candle that the wind won't blow out, to light the path for a friend" ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet; 'Twas ...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY)
I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those match...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
God’s love is like this candle, if you are this little candle, the whole world around you will see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
How many miles to Babylon?
Three-score and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?
Yes,...
SEANAN MCGUIRE
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides...
BILL BRYSON
A candle's true power is measured not on how wide or strong its light is, but on how many candles it...
JOHN B. BEJO
I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination t...
TIM O'BRIEN
I would rather walk alone in the light than with many in the dark doom.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ...
MARGARET WEIS
It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.
KAMI GARCIA
Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others s...
ROY T. BENNETT
I think we can do better. That is what Robert Kennedy always said. I think we can do better too. Won...
PAUL WELLSTONE
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS
We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS
She swore, i' faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Is she going to be a match or is she going to be a candle? Is she going to flame out or is she going...
ARMANDO SIQUEIROS
The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roo...
T. B. JOSHUA
Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh...
MARIE RUTKOSKI
I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON
There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
EDITH WHARTON

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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST
What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST
The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
ROBERT DELAUNAY
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES
For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, an...
ROBERT LORENZ
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.
ROBERT FULGHUM
Clean up your own mess.
ROBERT FULGHUM