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torches
«I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.»
«Sex is a flame which uncontrolled may scorch; properly guided, it will light the torch of eternity»
«They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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bothering, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, flame, lights, passions, philosophy, The Passions, torch, torches
«Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.»
«Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.»
«It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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examined, mortal, terrestrial, torch, torches
«There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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clergyman, clergymen, extinguisher, The Teacher, torch, torches, village