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  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

    "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)
  • There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

    "Lanterns and Lances‎". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.
  • 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.

    Eye   Fire   Light  
    'Sonnets pour Hèléne' (1578) bk. 2, no. 42
  • Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  • 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

    Light   Three   Nimble  
  • 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.

    Light   Everyday   Needs  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1903). “A Selection from Mrs. Browning's Poems”
  • 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.

    Moving   Dark   Smell  
    Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.14, Vintage
  • Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

    Dark   Light   Corners  
    Song: Each Small Candle
  • When you possess light within, you see it externally.

  • 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!

    Love   Night   Light  
    A Few Figs from Thistles "First Fig" l. 1 (1920)
  • 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.

    Writing   Light   Years  
  • God and the imagination are one.

    Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.295, Knopf
  • I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

  • 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.

    Mother   Light   Worship  
    "Among School Children" l. 49 (1928)
  • The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor
  • Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

    Morning   Night   Light  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.74, Doubleday
  • 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.

    Wall   Fall   Orange  
    Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.108, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • At the darkest moment comes the light.

    Light   Bliss   Moments  
    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor
  • 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.

    Summer   Winter   Night  
    A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)
  • Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

  • By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

    Taken   Light   Age  
  • Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

    "A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer".
  • Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!

    Happiness   Dark   Men  
  • 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.

    "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by P. Sekirin, (November 26), 1997.
  • Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry: "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlight for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor... Light is knowledge. Light is life. Light is light.

    Book   Knowledge   Night  
    "Northern Exposure". www.imdb.com. 1990-1995.
  • If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

  • At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

  • It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

  • All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

  • 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

    Lying   Light   Triumph  
    Francis Bacon (1852). “The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu”, p.2
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