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We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out.
— Candles
We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out.
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
On the Coast of CoromandelThese were all his worldly goods
My candle burns at both ends; It gives a lovely light.
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back,When gold and silver becks me to come on.
Out, out, brief candle!Signifying nothing.
Thus hath the candle singed the moth.
She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
In winter I get up at night,I have to go to bed by day.
The candle by which she had been reading the book filled with trouble and deceit, sorrow and evil, flared up with a brighter light, illuminating for her everything that before had been enshrouded in darkness, flickered, grew dim, and went out forever.
A single candle can lit a thousand candles without losing anything. [...] Let us be like those shining candles [...] benefitting all sentient beings.
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Some say, that Signor Bononcini,'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
They say rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles.
I wonder if that's the reason insects are so fond of flying into candles - because they want to turn into Snap-dragon-flies!
If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out - bang! - just like a candle!
The candles all grew up to the ceiling, looking something like a bed of rushes with fireworks at the top.
His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends"
No, not dead. But the candle in that great turnip has gone out.
I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
'Tis nothing but a magic shadow-show,Played in a box whose candle is the sun
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: the morning daylight appears plainer when you put out your candle.
I believe that it is better to light one candle than to promise a million light bulbs.
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
And it seems to me you lived your lifeLike a candle in the wind
It is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew light at Calais.
