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«Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.»
Author: Faith Baldwin | Keywords: autumn, brightly, burned, flame, flinging, flings, flung, mountains, torch, torches
«I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.»
Author: Isak Dinesen (Writer) | Keywords: barrel, barreling, charming, kept woman, lighted, mutinies, mutiny, powder, powdered, powders, saves, seemed, ship, sitting, tale, The Women, torch, torches
«Sex is a flame which uncontrolled may scorch; properly guided, it will light the torch of eternity»
Author: Joseph Fetterman | About: Sex | Keywords: flame, guided, properly, scorch, scorched, scorching, torch, torches, uncontrolled
«Do you need proof of God? Does one light a torch to see the sun?»
Author: Japanese Proverb | Keywords: proof, torch, torches
«They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.»
Author: Marquis De Sade (Novelist) | Keywords: bothering, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, flame, lights, passions, philosophy, The Passions, torch, torches
«Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: judas, lanterns, officers, Pharisees, torches
«Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | About: Generations, Hope, Life | Keywords: brief, briefed, briefest, briefing, brightly, burn, candle, for the moment, generations, handing, hand made, have got, make it, onto, sort, sort of, splendid, torch, torches
«It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: examined, mortal, terrestrial, torch, torches
«Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: hold up, reformers, torches
«There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: clergyman, clergymen, extinguisher, The Teacher, torch, torches, village
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