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The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one
Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.
To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.
Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."
Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.
Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.
If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.
This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.
I have a karaoke lounge in my house, complete with a tiki bar and hula-girl lamps and disco balls.
I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.
Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.
Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.
Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.
We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed.
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.
My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.
Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.
I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
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.
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.
Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.
Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.