Quotes with lantern

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• But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

  Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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• I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

  William Butler Yeats
  Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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• The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

  Nicolas Chamfort
  French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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• You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• restlessly
• corridors
• intellect
• character
• diogenese
• senseless

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