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torch
«We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.»
Author: Ben Sweetland
| About:
Social service
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brightened, brightening, brightens, our own, path, torch, torches
«Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.»
Author: Claude Adrien Helvetius
(Philosopher)
| About:
Truth
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dispelling, fog, fogs, gleamed, gleaming, gleams, The Fog, torch, torches
«Sex is a flame which uncontrolled may scorch; properly guided, it will light the torch of eternity»
«Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.»
Author: Louis Pasteur
(Chemist, Microbiologist)
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furthest, illuminates, personification, that nation, The Nation, The Works, torch
«They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
bothering, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, flame, lights, passions, philosophy, The Passions, torch, torches
«PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ambitious, beg, Beg to, combustible, dictionary, Dr., Dr. Johnson, Dr, Dr Johnson, enlightened, famous, illuminate, inferior, Johnson, last name, last resort, resort, respect to, rubbish, scoundrel, submit, The Last Resort, torch, With all due respect
«There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
clergyman, clergymen, extinguisher, The Teacher, torch, torches, village