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«Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.»
«It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket.»
«From the holocausts of the day he lights his own flaming torch. It illuminates what we are, what we have wrought, what we must renounce.»
«I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.»
«In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.»
«Do you need proof of God? Does one light a torch to see the sun?»
Author: Japanese Proverb | Keywords: proof, torch, torches
«Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell»
Author: Thomas J. Watson, Sr. | About: Knowledge, Repentance | Keywords: torch
«Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.»
«Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.»
«It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.»

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