Quotes 1 till 20 of 22.
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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Jesus is a place-kicker and he's gonna kick you through the goal-posts of life.
Radio From Hell (June 6, 2006) -
Light gatherer. You fell from a star
into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside
mirrored in you,
and now you shine like a snowgirl,
a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder
you squeal at and fly in.The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002) -
Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
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More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
1910 Speech, quoted in Alan L. Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977) -
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
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The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
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When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
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