Candle Quotes - Page 28

• People think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

  Bobby Lee

  Crazy, Thinking, Light

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• A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.

  Nathalia Crane

  Laughter, Wall, Angel

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Light, Shade, Enough

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• Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Sleep, Fire, Light

  Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.63, Algonquin Books

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• Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Men, Flames, Hands

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.26

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• It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.

  Matthew Henry

  Heaven, Benefits, Influence

  Matthew Henry, Ezekiel Blomfield (1808). “A new family Bible: containing Old and New Testaments”, p.360

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• Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

  Patrick F. McManus

  Winter, Men, Lakes

  Patrick F. McManus (1982). “They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?”, p.26, Macmillan

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• You need to turn your room into a place of power. It's a good idea to have flowers around, candles, incense, you know, happy things. Make your room into a beautiful place and keep it impeccably clean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Flower, Ideas

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• Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.

  Brigham Young

  Care, Bishops, Hell

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• The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain.

  Heath Ledger

  Cousin, Memories, Heart

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• Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Light, Oil, Shining

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spiritual, Twilight, Feelings

  "Hyperion" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853.

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• If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.

  Brigham Young

  Light, People, World

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• Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flames, Looks, Intensity

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• Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.

  Patti Davis

  Teacher, Night, Light

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• The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Spring, Winter, Years

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• And yes, I know it's you; and that is what we will come to, sooner or later, when it's even darker than it is now, when the snow is colder, when it's darkest and coldest and candles are no longer any use to us and the visibility is zero: yes. It's still you. It's still you.

  Margaret Atwood

  Zero, Snow, Use

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.

  Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

  Mother, Memories, School

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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

  Adam Rapp

  Grief, Rain, Heart

  Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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• We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

  Robert H. Shaffer

  Teacher, Teaching, Views

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• The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Thinking, Light, Doubt

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• That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

  Richard Baxter

  Yesterday, Light, Too Late

  Richard Baxter (1837). “Now or never: the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, excited & directed ...”, p.5

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• 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

  Summer, Winter, Night

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

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• I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

  Laurie David

  Grateful, School, Kids

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• I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Light, Lovely, Ends

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