Candle
A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light.
That which gives light; a luminary.
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Candle Quotations
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George Carlin
I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
Mitch Hedberg
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Steven Wright
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman
Candle Translations
candle in Afrikaans is kers
candle in Danish is lys
candle in Dutch is kaarsensterkte, candela, kaars
candle in French is bougie, chandelle
candle in German is Kerze
candle in Hungarian is gyertya
candle in Italian is candela
candle in Latin is candela
candle in Norwegian is lys
candle in Portuguese is vela
candle in Spanish is bujia, vela, bujia
candle in Swedish is stearinljus, vaxljus, ljus
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