“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”
The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 2.
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Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Remark upon learning of the death of Eleanor Roosevelt, drawing upon the motto of the Christopher Society: "It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness." ; quoted in The New York Times (8 November 1962)
“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.
Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.
The Rattlesnake
How to Become Extinct (1941)
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVII: On Taking One’s Own Life
“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
