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«May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart»
Author: Eskimo Proverb | Keywords: igloo, lamp, warmth
«It takes a long time to educate a community and it can't be done by spellbinders, moneybags, hypnotizers or magicians or Aladdin's lamp. Character is what matters on a paper.»
Author: Harry J. Grant | About: Community | Keywords: Aladdin, educate, lamp, magicians
«Hope is patience with the lamp lit.»
Author: Tertullian | About: Hope, Patience | Keywords: lamp, lit
«My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.»
«Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.»
«Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shed»
«I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.»
«I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library»
«I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no»
«If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.»

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