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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. -- William Arthur Ward
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' -- Steven Wright
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -- William Shakespeare
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -- Edith Wharton
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. -- William Penn
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
You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out. -- Jeanne Moreau
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. -- Milton Friedman
When all candles be out, all cats be grey. -- John Heywood
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle. -- James Howell
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. -- Margaret Fuller
A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle. -- Rumi
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. -- Irwin Shaw
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. -- Francis of Assisi
Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference. -- Anthea Turner
Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. -- Tim Vine
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. -- Gautama Buddha
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. -- Jane Porter
I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop. -- Anthony Jeselnik
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. -- Newt Gingrich
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. -- Muhammad Naguib
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle. -- Benjamin Franklin
Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. -- Beverly Sills
I hear he liked flowers pretty well.""Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."--"Out, Brief Candle -- Kurt Vonnegut
Candle needs darkness to show his talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it will disappear when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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. -- James Russell Lowell
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him. -- James Joyce
For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go. -- Omar Khayyam
Candle making is a half-ass business, because the product is only useful half the day, at night. Why not make candles that double as dildos, and make it a whole-ass business. -- Jarod Kintz
That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.' -- Richard Dean Anderson
Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone. -- John Selden
Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle -- Gregory Maguire
There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned. -- Nicollette Sheridan
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. -- James Keller
I have way too many candles. There's always a candle burning at home. -- Erin Heatherton
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. -- Gautama Buddha
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. -- Dean Inge
I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. -- Mitch Hedberg
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
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -- Buddha
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. -- Bill Bryson
Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle. -- Carrie Underwood
For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective. -- Laura Esquivel
My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop. -- Iggy Pop
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? -- Ralph Marston
I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.' -- Al Seckel
Lighting one candle -- Yosa Buson
My candle burns at both ends -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Light a candle against the darkness... -- Sylvain Reynard
Man's best candle is his understanding. -- James Howell
Why don't you light that candle ? -- Alan Shepard
Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch! -- George Bernard Shaw
Commonsense is the wick of the candle. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't curse the darkness, light a candle. -- Confucius
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime. -- Charles Dickens
Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit. -- Henry Fielding
Better light a candle than curse the darkness. -- Confucius possibly
Lighting one candle from another - Winter night -- Yosa Buson
At night a candle's brighter than the sun -- Sting
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle. -- Benjamin Franklin
The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow. -- William Shakespeare
I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy. -- Jo Brand
Carry your candle of light to every dark place. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness. -- James Keller
A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle. -- Thomas Jefferson
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. -- Rumi
Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest. -- Rumi
The music paled like a candle and went out ... -- Stella Benson
Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle -- Rumi
To light a candle is to cast a shadow -- Kate Forsyth
To light a candle is to cast a shadow. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I wish I were a candle in the darkness. -- Mahmoud Darwish
To light a candle is to cast a shadow... -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. -- Carl Sandburg
Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire. -- Rumi
Each small candle lights a corner of the dark. -- Roger Waters
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. -- Jonathan Swift
First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing. -- A.M. Jenkins
The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit! -- Rumi
Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit. -- Harbhajan Singh
Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room -- Aftab Alam
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. -- Charles Spurgeon
Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement. -- William Arthur Ward
I was eating beans by candle light for a decade. -- Eric Andre
Education is a candle that kindles and enlightens our mind. -- Debasish Mridha
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. -- George R. R. Martin
Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle. -- Victor Hugo
A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. -- James Keller
A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself. -- Hillel the Elder
When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle? -- Alan Shepard
I want to shine like a little candle before His altar. -- Therese of Lisieux
Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars. -- Matthew Woodring Stover
It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle. -- George Herbert
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. -- Rumi
Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire -- Marilyn Manson
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun -- Algernon Sidney
As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. -- Richard Paul Evans
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. -- Giovanni Ruffini
Sun gives light; torch gives light, candle gives light; smiling gives light. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
a soldier's mind is made of rock; the heart of a candle. -- Srinivas Shenoy
Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle. -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
If you want to own the Sun, you must first understand candle. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. -- Henri Rousseau
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson
He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun -- Rumi
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow. -- Frank Delaney

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