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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners. — Isabel Allende

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness. — Alfred Korzybski

The intelligent are candles,
the virtuous are torches,
the wise are lamps,
and the enlightened are stars. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp. — George Stillman Hillard

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. — Lord Byron

A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor. — Aleksandra Layland

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants. — Heidi Julavits

What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Aladdin's lamp is mine. — Ira Gershwin

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps. — Mao Zedong

Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library. — Lord Byron

Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp. — Anne Sexton

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind. — Austin O'Malley

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all. — Vincent Van Gogh

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. — Edward Grey

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. — Thomas Carlyle

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts. — George H. W. Bush

He lay there shaking in the light of the red lamps, in a silent hall, alone with his triumph, unable to move and bleeding to death. — Scott Lynch

I've always assumed the old men were just there, fixed, like lamps, but in love with their moths. — Tom Cardamone

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive. — Aristotle Onassis

One pale woman all alone,
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone. — Oscar Wilde

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight. — Edgar Degas

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp. — Elvis Presley

It takes oil to keep the lamps burning. — Mother Teresa

Light that is One though the lamps be many. — Robin Williamson

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts. — Jeffrey Robinson

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning ... — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. — Charles Spurgeon

flickering lamps scattered here — Jean M. Auel

Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

Canary light of oil lamps — Jonathan Safran Foer

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon. — Joan Rivers

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared. — Rabindranath Tagore

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it. — Herman Melville

And in the evening, everywhere
Along the roadside, up and down,
I see the golden torches flare
Like lighted street-lamps in the town. — Frank Dempster Sherman

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth. — Gautama Buddha

What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels? — William Golding

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. — Friedrich Schiller

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. — Alberto Manguel

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day. — Richard Francis Burton

Below him, the lamplighter was lighting the lamps that lined the wide avenue. — Kate DiCamillo

God is the electricity and we are the lamps. — Marianne Williamson

We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed. — Justin Bieber

The village was shutting its eyes. Candles and lamps were being put out everywhere: she could inwardly behold the extinguisher and the extended hand. — Thomas Hardy

The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things. — Rumi

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. — Rumi

At night the bottom of the valley looks like water, and the lamps in the little town lying along it like quivering reflections of the stars. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Lamps are different, but light is the same. — Rumi

Don't be a prude, or snobbish, but let your life "glow" for Christ. We are lamps shining in the darkness. — Billy Graham

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart. — Kabir

In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it. — Mother Teresa

We all have the same Rislampa/Har paper lamps made from wire and environmentally friendly unbleached paper. Mine are confetti. — Chuck Palahniuk

The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge. — Gautama Buddha

Houses were dark in the August night and the perspective of Beacon Street, with its double chain of lamps, — Henry James

Sketchbooks and journals are the street lamps that illuminate the artist's journey. — Neil Waldman

It's easy, once the lamps are lit, to scoff at shadows. — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp. — John Burroughs

Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same! — Ovid

The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us. — Origen

One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants. — Susanna Clarke

Give me a lamp so I can find the day. — Frank Herbert

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp. — Gautama Buddha

Courage is adversity's lamp. — Luc De Clapiers

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it. — Joseph Joubert

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps. — Wasif Ali Wasif

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. — Mignon McLaughlin

All fled - all done, so lift me on the pyre
The Feast is over, and the lamps expire. — Robert E. Howard

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. — John Milton

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded. — Henry David Thoreau

The Poets light but Lamps-
Themselves-go out- — Emily Dickinson

A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps. — Theodore L. Cuyler

Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves. — Gautama Buddha

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house. — Moderata Fonte

Perhaps the woman was waiting beneath the lamps for cats to drop from the trees, like fruit. — Ramsey Campbell

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a human . — Diogenes

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood. — Thomas Jefferson

I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer. — Kate Spade

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. — William Shakespeare

What if like, all the doors in the entire world turned into lamps and started eating our windows like whaaatttt — None Listed

How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps? — K.J. Bishop

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life. — Rabindranath Tagore

In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Baba's words and actions have lit the lamp of love in the hearts of devotees and they will always remember him for the good things he has done. — Sathya Sai Baba

It was dismal sitting there on rickety boxes in the pitchy darkness, but we smoked pipes and occasionally flashed our pocket lamps about. — H.P. Lovecraft

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post. — H.L. Mencken

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. — Walter Savage Landor

We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp. — Peter Sagal

To my mind, that's a bigger and brighter idea than sitting at a lonely center surrounded by cold and distant astral lamps. — David Eagleman

The naive lose it in dark woods,
but seek it under the street lamps. — Toba Beta

And so, under a short grove of feebler and feebler over-swinging lamps, out under the great grove of stars. — Anonymous

My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside. — Rachel Zoe

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. — Anthony Doerr

The moles came bearing their lamps and then the most ancient and magical creature that ever danced beneath the moon was lost in darkness once more. — Robin Jarvis