“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

— Margaret Fuller

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American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810–1850

Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) Irish playwright and librettist

The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 2.

“In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.”

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

“A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.”

Michael Cunningham book By Nightfall

Source: By Nightfall

“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)

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

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