“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) Irish playwright and librettist
The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 2.
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Robert Louis Stevenson book A Child's Garden of Verses
Bed in Summer, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
“It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.”
Algernon Sidney (1623–1683) British politician and political theorist
Source: Discourses Concerning Government (1689), Ch. 2, Sect. 18; comparable to: "Like his that lights a candle to the sun", John Fletcher, Letter to Sir Walter Aston; "And hold their farthing candle to the sun", Edward Young, Satire vii. line 56.
“I light my candle from their torches.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 5, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Variant: Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Source: This is My Story
“There are two ways of spreading light.. to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
"Vesalius in Zante (1564)", in North American Review (November 1902), p. 631
Variant: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist
Source: Away
“Now we have lit a candle to the power
Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light
Itself…”
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)