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Each small candle lights a corner of the dark. -- Roger Waters
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. -- Jonathan Swift
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. -- Wallace Stevens
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. -- Walt Whitman
Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. -- Leo Tolstoy
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose. -- William Butler Yeats
I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light -- Mira Grant
Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay; Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming On the banks of the Wabash, far away. -- Theodore Dreiser
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure -- Francis Bacon
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan. -- Geraldine Brooks
When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair. -- Pierre de Ronsard
She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light. -- Michael Ondaatje
I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen. -- Jean Webster
Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness. -- James Keller
A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. -- Giovanni Ruffini
He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson
How beautiful to look at When my prayer Lights a candle of hope In my heart. -- Sri Chinmoy
Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it. -- Israel Meir Kagan
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives -- Anna Quindlen

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