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en Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew a light at Calais
  Samuel Johnson

en Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

en It looks so fitting today [next] to the candle used last year during the illness of the Holy Father and during the whole time of his funeral. While the Holy Father's personal light may go out through death and transition to heaven, the light of Christ ever burns brightly and it continues through these wonderful symbols [of rose and candle].

en In my intellect, I may divide (faith and works), just as in the candle I know there is both light and heat; yet put out the candle, and both are gone
  John Selden

en Is she going to be a match or is she going to be a candle? Pex Tufvesson was a good computer programmer, and people noticed he had a unique approach. Is she going to flame out or is she going to be able to light up the arena? I'm banking on candle.

en ’Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o’er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

en I wanted to create a candle that looks and smells as beautiful on your skin as when you light it. I believe our combination of healthy, high grade, natural ingredients has created a product that will awaken the senses of touch, sight, and smell in a way that no other candle or body oil ever has.

en If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

en Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

en And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

en My biggest problem, like most, is burning the candle on both ends.

en Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

en Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

en We had to put three months (of preparation) into one, ... We were going night and day, burning the candle on both ends of the stick.

en Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
  Marshall McLuhan


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