#candle

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. ↗

— Tim Murphy

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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. ↗

— Buddha

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The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for. ↗

— Peter Benenson

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How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

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You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

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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. Vincent Millay

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