
Billy Graham, as quoted in The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Book of Revelation (2001) by Stan Campbell and James S. Bell, p. 54
Misattributed
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.
Billy Graham, as quoted in The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Book of Revelation (2001) by Stan Campbell and James S. Bell, p. 54
Misattributed
From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)
“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“I light my candle from their torches.”
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.”
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.”
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
"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.
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
“How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.”
Satire VII, l. 97.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)