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beacon

«All physical evils are so many beacon lights to warn us from vice!»
Author: Francis Bowen | Keywords: beacon, beacons, warn
«Monica: Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?»
Author: Friends | Keywords: beacon, beacons, Monica, severe
«A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.»
«One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.»
«He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.»
«Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.»
«Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.»
«A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: at sea, beacon, beacons, shore, wreck
«Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley (Biologist) | About: Consequences | Keywords: beacon, beacons
«Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.»