Affection lights a brighter flame
Than ever blazed by art. [ William Cowper ]
He lights his candle at both ends. [ Proverb ]
Sorrow is a torch that lights life.
Just above yon sandy bar,
As the day grows fainter and dimmer.
Lonely and lovely, a single star
Lights the air with a dusky glimmer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Take up the torch and wave it wide,
The torch that lights Time's thickest gloom. [ Bonar ]
When the searching eye of heaven is hid
Behind the globe, and lights the lower world,
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen,
In murthers and in outrage boldly here. [ William Shakespeare ]
These earthly god-fathers of heaven's lights
That give a name to every fixed star
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. [ William Shakespeare ]
Something beyond! The immortal morning stands
Above the night, clear shines her prescient brow;
The pendulous star in her transfigured hands
Lights up the Now. [ Mary Clemmer ]
Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. [ Thoreau ]
Our ideas, like pictures, are made up of lights and shadows. [ Joubert ]
That fire which lights us at a distance, will burn us when near. [ Proverb ]
A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend. [ Burke ]
Of all the lights you carry in your face, joy shines farthest out to sea.
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Her face is like the Milky Way in the sky, - A meeting of gentle lights without a name. [ Sir John Suckling ]
The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence. [ Spurgeon ]
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. [ Coleridge ]
Experience to most men is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. [ Coleridge ]
Where such radiant lights have shone, no wonder if her cheeks be grown sunburnt with lustre of their own. [ John Cleaveland ]
Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent, passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and lights up a fire. [ La Roche ]
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. [ Ruskin ]
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us. [ Chapin ]
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. [ Bacon ]
The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine. [ South ]
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy: the smile that accepts the lover before the words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures it of a mother's love. [ Haliburton ]
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. [ A. B. Alcott ]
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. [ Dickens ]
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The light of the sun, the light of the moon, and the light of the air, in nature and substance are one and the same light, and yet they are there distinct lights: the light of the sun being of itself, and from none; the light of the moon from the sun; and the light of the air from them both. So the Divine Nature is one, and the persons three; subsisting, after a diverse manner, in one and the same Nature. [ R. Newton ]
Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling's military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member of the republic, you are emancipated, compulsions are not for you, nor any bugle-tail but lights out.
You pay the time-worn duty bills if you choose, or decline if you prefer - and without prejudice - for they are not legally collectable. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]