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344 Lamps quotes by 272 unique authors

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight. — Edgar Degas
Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get… — Aristotle Onassis
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. — George William Curtis
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its… — Rabindranath Tagore
Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more… — Napoleon Hill
The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark.… — Edwin Way Teale
Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to… — Moby
I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic,… — David Bromstad
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark… — Edward Hirsch
Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience. — Maurice Saatchi
Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get… — Mark Slouka
The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of… — Yoshida Kenko
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who… — Donald Miller
The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder,… — Claudia Jones
During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the… — Damon Knight
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the… — Khalil Gibran
The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea… — Robert Browning
Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I… — Archimedes
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die… — Khalil Gibran
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore… — Edgar Allan Poe
The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the… — Marianne Williamson
That's a big lava lamp. Congratulations. — Mitt Romney
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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