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Tag Name "Candle" (394)

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Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
Daniel Johns
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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
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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
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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At night a candle's brighter than the sun
Sting
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There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
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Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
James Keller
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They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.
George Carlin
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
Tennessee Williams
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For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.
Robert Creeley
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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
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Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
George D. Prentice
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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
Tennessee Williams
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By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.
Robert Moss
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I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.
Jeffrey Combs
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It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.
George Herbert
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What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.
Terry Pratchett
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Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
Roger Waters
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'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
Jeph Jacques
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The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!
George Sterling
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Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.
Thomas de Quincey
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As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.
Romano Guardini
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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
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Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride.
Ginger Rogers
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