“Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways
Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.”
Thomas Warton (1728–1790) English literary historian, critic, poet
"Sonnet Written in a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon" (1777), line 13.
“Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.”
The People, Yes http://books.google.com/books?id=bCSu8UHz9EUC&q=%22Man's+life+A+candle+in+the+wind+hoar+frost+on+stone%22&pg=PA509#v=onepage (1936)
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“The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
" Frost at Midnight http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Frost_at_Midnight.html", l. 1 (1798)
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.
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Variant translation: Absence weakens the minor passions and adds to the effects of great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Maxim 276.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
Candle in the Wind
Song lyrics, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
From The Teaching of Buddha http://www.bdk.or.jp/english/about/popularization/buddhist-scriptures.html, by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (Society for the Promotion of Buddhism), Pg 132. It is a paraphrased version of Section 10 of the Sutra of Forty-two Sections <br class="br">Unclassified
Wallace Stevens book Harmonium
"Valley Candle"
Harmonium (1923)
Context: My candle burned alone in an immense valley.
Beams of the huge night converged upon it,
Until the wind blew.
Then beams of the huge night
Converged upon its image,
Until the wind blew.
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VII, Sec. 3-4
Context: There are also several quarries called Anician in the territory of Tarquinii, the stone being of the color of peperino.... Neither the season of frost nor exposure to fire can harm it, but it remains solid and lasts to a great age, because there is only a little air and fire in its natural composition, a moderate amount of moisture, and a great deal of the earthy. Hence its structure is of close texture and solid, and so it cannot be injured by the weather or by the force of fire. Monuments in the neighborhood of the town of Ferento which are made of stone from these quarries... gracefully carved. Old as these are, they look as fresh as if they were only just finished. Bronze workers, also, make molds for the casting of bronze out of stone from these quarries and find it very useful in bronze-founding.
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
Variant: He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
Source: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories