“ Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining — they just shine. ”
- Dwight L. Moody- Copy
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“ One moment I gaz'd from the hill's gentle slope, All hush'd was the billows' commotion, And tho't that the Light-house look'd lovely as Hope, That star of life's tremulous ocean. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save: they just stand there, shining. ”
- Anne Lamott- Copy
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“ Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden… it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
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“ The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols… ”
- Louis Aragon- Copy
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“ Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
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