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The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself


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A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
SASHA AZEVEDO Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
ANDREW FLETCHER Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
ANDREW FLETCHER, LORD INNERPEFFER (1) Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed fr...
ELIZABETH I In every village there is a candle, the teacher;
and an extinguisher, the clergy.
VICTOR HUGO The painful Preacher, like a candle bright, Consumes himself in giving others Light.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by t...
PETER BENENSON Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID Rather than teach,"be good so as to make heaven", teach be good for this is what makes you better & ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best teacher worries, the best teacher cares, it is the children who will laugh. If the teacher ...
APURVA GAGLANI The role of a teacher begins when he or she leaves for school early in the morning and comes in cont...
APURVA GAGLANI Teachers who do not worry about children, who do not care about children can never ensure the childr...
APURVA GAGLANI The best teacher is one in whose presence there is never a case of ragging and bullying.
APURVA GAGLANI We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one those principal lights or natural mediums by whi...
SIR ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, 7TH EARL OF SHAFTESBURY The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to h...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates wh...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which apprec...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You still have to pay the teacher and have the lights turned on.
AL MIJARES She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emi...
DIOGENES The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judg...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in i...
NANCY HARMON JENKINS Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
SAMUEL JOHNSON And, what is more, we know how an all-consuming passion for freedom in the world never fails to lead...
JEAN PAULHAN Pain in the present is experienced as hurt,pain in the past is remembered as anger.
GAELIC PROVERB Truth is like the final flame of a candle which sparks a little brighter just to remind us that i am...
SWANSH This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others ...
N.K. JEMISIN She was like a candle in the wind... unreliable.
GARTH MARENGHI Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
CARL SANDBURG Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable t...
RAINER MARIA RILKE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Teaching of others teacheth the teacher
ANWAR FULLER To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ...
MARGARET WEIS Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists mu...
ARNE GLIMCHER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE God’s love is like this candle, if you are this little candle, the whole world around you will see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in wh...
KHUSHWANT SINGH We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
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CHINESE PROVERB I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.
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ROY T. BENNETT God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN Forget candle, she lives the afterlife like a barn door in the wind.
SOLON My biggest problem, like most, is burning the candle on both ends.
DR. ERIC OLSON I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason ...
WILLIAM PENN Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reaso...
WILLIAM PENN She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could n...
LEWIS CARROLL There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Vice leaves, like an ulcer in the flesh, a repentance in the soul which is always scratching itself ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselve...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the...
GEORGE S. PATTON Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
EVA HERZIGOVA Giving God a challenge is like lighting a candle to challenge the sun.
VIKRANT PARSAI He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
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ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
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ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
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SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
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ITALIAN PROVERB Our last garment is made without pockets.
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ITALIAN PROVERB The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.
ITALIAN PROVERB The right man comes at the right time.
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ITALIAN PROVERB He who knows little quickly tells it.
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ITALIAN PROVERB Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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ITALIAN PROVERB A little man often cast a long shadow.
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ITALIAN PROVERB Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
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