"Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp."
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"And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?"
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"Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him."
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"Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours."
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"Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp."
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"How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb."
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"Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?"
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"Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]"
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"Give me a lamp so I can find the day."
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"Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree."
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"When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp."
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"We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps."
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"The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it."
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"I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library."
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