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• I have faith that if we caught hold of God's living candle on that truth and went out into the world-I don't care [what vocation] -just out in the world being true to the vision, we would not need to defend the cause of Jesus Christ. People would come and ask; "Where have you found the radiance that I sense in your eyes and in your face? How come you don't get carried away with the world?" And we would answer that the work of salvation is the glorious work of Jesus Christ. But it is also the glorious work of the uncovering and recovering of your own latent divinity.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Jesus, Eye, People

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• That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

  Bear Grylls

  Flames, Ice, Giving

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• The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

  Wes Fesler

  Optimism, Burning, Ends

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• That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the Hindu paintings? All sorts of grotesque and unnatural figures. What do you see in a Hindu temple? A Chaturbhanga Narayana or some such thing. But take into consideration any Italian picture or Grecian statue-what a study of nature you find in them! A gentleman for twenty years sat burning a candle in his hand, in order to paint a lady carrying a candle in her hand.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Italian, Hands, Order

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

  Mao Zedong

  Spring, Rain, Land

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

  Al Gore

  Light, Darkness, Curse

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• I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Air, Flames, Needs

  Nadine Gordimer (1998). “The House Gun: A Novel”, p.54, Macmillan

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• 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

  Light, Three, Nimble

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• Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends.

  Tom Baker

  Heart, Light, Soul

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• I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow — written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

  Margaret Atwood

  Keys, Snow, Invisible Ink

  "The Blind Assassin". Book by Margaret Atwood, September 2, 2000.

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• He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

  Anne Rice

  Grieving, Light, Jewels

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2112, Ballantine Books

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• Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.

  Mooji

  Mind, Trying, Sun

  Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.37, New Harbinger Publications

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• Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

  Fannie Flagg

  Light, Darkness, Littles

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• Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn your hair to gray. Mary keep your oars a-steady Sail away on the rising flood Keep your candle at the ready Red tides can't be told from blood. - "Miss Mary" (a common child's clapping game, dating from the time of the blitz), from Pattycake and Beyond: A History of Play

  Lauren Oliver

  Children, Rain, Games

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• It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

  Henry James

  Country, Travel, Mountain

  Henry James (2016). “The Wings of the Dove, Complete: American Literature”, p.71, 谷月社

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• She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Light, Darkness, Kind

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• What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flames, Eggshells, Break

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.607, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.

  Dylan Thomas

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

  Sylvia Plath

  Christmas, Disappointment, Fire

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.65, Faber & Faber

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• Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy...As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Love Is, Light

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• Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Running, Kings, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.369, Macmillan

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• The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

  Janet Fitch

  Happy Birthday, Party, Cake

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

  Philip Pullman

  Choices, Doing Nothing, Way

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Stars, Years, Cities

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• If you sexy and you know it and you ain't afraid to show it. Put a candle on my motherfu*king back baby blow it.

  Rihanna

  Sexy, Baby, Kings

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