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Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind.
oswald mosley— 'Comrades in Struggle' (June 1938)
Lovelyare the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.
George Meredith— 1851Poems,'Love in the Valley', stanza 5. The poem was revised and republished in1878.
From you, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, The substance of my dreams took fire. You built cathedrals in my heart, And lit my pinnacled desire.
— 1918 'Dead Musicians'.
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
— 1976 Laboratories of the Spirit,'The Bright Field'.
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. We ought to smell, as it were, the difference of quality in men and their proposals when we enter the world of affairs about us.
william james— The Social Value of the College-Bred
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future , nor hankering after an imagined past . It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
r. s. thomas— "The Bright Field", p. 60
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
— R. S. Thomas, in "The Bright Field" in Laboratories of the Spirit (1975), p. 60
Specific types of Kundas are recommended for different kinds of Yagnas....A pit for sacrificial fire or a pot ( altar ) or small reservoir/clay-structure (made up on the ground in which the Yagna fire is lit.
— In p.9 (The Integrated Science of Yagna)
Les gens qu'on honore ne sont que des fripons qui ont eu le bonheur de n'e" tre pas pris en flagrant de lit. Respected people are only rascals who have had the good fortune not to be caught in the act.
— 1830 Le Rouge et le noir, bk.2, ch.44.
The whole fleet's lit up.When I say 'lit up',I mean by fairy lamps.
— 1937 BBC radio commentary of the Spithead review, 20 May, Britain's first live outside broadcast.'Lit up' was a common euphemism for 'drunk'.
She's got the brown eyes, yeah, and they're pretty as hell,And they'll burn through your shirt if you're holding her still.She's got a lighter, and a lit cigarette,And if you're making her smile, that's just as high as you can get.
ryan adams— Miss Sunflower
We watched her come with subtle fireAnd learned feet,Stumbling among the lustful drunkYet somehow sweet.We saw the crimson leave her cheeksFlame in her eyes;For when a woman lives in awful hasteA woman dies.The jests that lit our hours by nightAnd made them gay,Soiled a sweet and ignorant soulAnd fouled its play.
Djuna Barnes— To a Cabaret Dancer
Baba's words and actions have lit the lamp of love in the hearts of devotees and they will always remember him for the good things he has done.
sathya sai baba— Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India, Hindustan Times, April 25, 2011
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.
alexander mccall smith— The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, chapter 30
In excited states of the public mind they have scarcely a discretion at all; the tendency of the public perturbation determines what shall and what shall not be dealt with. But, upon the other hand, in quiet times statesmen have great power; when there is no fire lighted, they can settle what fire shall be lit. And as the new suffrage is happily to be tried in a quiet time, the responsibility of our statesmen is great because their power is great too.
walter bagehot— Introduction, p.xxi
L'amour est une source naïve, partie de son lit de cresson, de fleurs, de gravier, qui rivière, qui fleuve, change de nature et d'aspect à chaque flot, et se jette dans un incommensurable océan où les esprits incomplets voient la monotonie, où les grandes âmes s'abîment en de perpétuelles contemplations.
honoré de balzac— Love is like some fresh spring, that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed and flowers to become first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit.
Charles Baudelaire— This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.XLVIII: "Anywhere out of the world" [30]
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human ."
Diogenes of Sinope— Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 41. This line is frequently translated as "I am looking for an honest man."
À partir de cet instant, je n’avais plus un seul pas à faire, le sol marchait pour moi dans ce jardin où depuis si longtemps mes actes avaient cessé d’être accompagnés d’attention volontaire: l’Habitude venait de me prendre dans ses bras et me portait jusqu’à mon lit comme un petit enfant.
Marcel Proust— From that instant I had not to take another step; the ground moved forward under my feet in that garden where, for so long, my actions had ceased to require any control, or even attention, from my will. Custom came to take me in her arms, carried me all the way up to my bed, and laid me down there like a little child."Combray"
So be it the wind and sun That reared thy limbs and lit thy veins with life Have blown and shone upon thee not for nought If these have fed and fired thy spirit as mine With love, with faith that casts out fear, with joy, With trust in truth and pride in trust if thou Be theirs indeed as theirs am I, with me Shalt thou take part and with my sea-folk aye, Make thine eyes wide and give God wondering thanks That grace like ours is given thee thou shalt bear Part of our praise for ever.
algernon charles swinburne— Faliero, Act III, Sc. 1.
I know the lands are lit With all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
helen hunt jackson— Helen Hunt Jackson, Asters and Goldenrod.
Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.
algernon charles swinburne— Algernon Charles Swinburne, Insularum Ocelle.
In excited states of the public mind they have scarcely a discretion at all; the tendency of the public perturbation determines what shall and what shall not be dealt with. But, upon the other hand, in quiet times statesmen have great power; when there is no fire lighted, they can settle what fire shall be lit. And as the new suffrage is happily to be tried in a quiet time, the responsibility of our statesmen is great because their power is great too.
walter bagehot— Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867), Introduction, p.xxi.
And he sang: "Hurra for my handiwork!" And the red sparks lit the air; Not alone for the blade was the bright steel made; And he fashioned the first ploughshare.
charles mackay— Charles Mackay, Tubal Cain, Stanza 4.
Writing turned a spotlight on the high, dim Sierras of speech; writing was the visualization of acoustic space. It lit up the dark.
— Marshall McLuhan (1969) Counterblast. p.14
Yesterday the wisest man holding a lit lantern in daylight was searching around town saying I am tired of all these beasts and brutes I seek a true human We have all looked for one but no one could be found they said Yes he replied but my search is for the one who cannot be found.
— Rumi, in Divani Shams Ghazal #441, translated by Nader Khalili in Rumi, Fountain of Fire
The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
— Edward Grey, Vol. 2, ch. 18, "lamps+are+going" p. 20 books.google
— On his famous remark, in August of 1914, about the impending outbreak of the First World War
— Cf. John Alfred Spender: Life, Journalism and Politics, Vol. 2, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1927. Chp. 20, p. 14 archive.org and w:The lamps are going out.
Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God .
— Eileen Elias Freeman, in The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers (1994), p. 4, ISBN 0446671215
Now we have lit a candle to the power of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light itself...
— Philip José Farmer, in "Sestina of the Space Rocket" first published in Startling Stories (February 1953); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
