When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay,… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and… — Fumiko Enchi Copy Share Image
For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my… — Inge Lehmann Copy Share Image
Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases.… — Charaka Copy Share Image