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"Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."

George William Curtis

Wisdom Books Burning Lamps

"There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith."

Islamic Dark Lamps

"Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning."

Albert Schweitzer

Lamps Burning Rejoice

"To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness."

Alfred Korzybski

Reality Darkness Lamps

"I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a paradox, because you're out there touring and traveling and going a million miles a minute, but the things that are keeping you steady and stable can be really hard to nurture when you're going fast, and your relationships, which are the number one thing that help me through."

Jobs Numbers Lamps

"Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep."

Amos Bronson Alcott

Sleep Heaven Lamps

"Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away."

Sadness Lamps Sticks

"Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp."

Morning Lamps Daylight

"Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light"

Glasses Light Lamps

"I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp."

Reading Halos Lamps

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