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“It is better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962)

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The lamp is needful in spring, still,
Though the jar of daffodils
Outsplendours lamplight and hearthflames.

In summer, only near midnight
Is match struck to wick.
A moth, maybe, troubles the rag of flame.

Harvest. The lamp in the window
Summons the scythe-men.
A school-book lies on the sill, two yellow halves.

In December the lamp’s a jewel,
The hearth ingots and incense.
A cold star travels across the pane.

Lamp. The Northern Lights. George MacKay Brown.

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“We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit.“

Robert H. Shaffer was a pioneer in the field of college student personnel and student affairs. His work spanned the course of four decades (approximately 1940-1981), which can be characterized as a period of “incredible growth and social and political change in American Society. “(Wikipedia)

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I sit in candle-light in the inn at Portree waiting for a ghost. It is a wild, gusty night. The rain beats up in sudden fury against the window. It is just a night as that, many years ago, on which Prince Charlie said good-bye to Flora Macdonald in this room… (HV Morton In Search of Scotland )

Henry Canova Vollam (”H. V.”) Morton (26 July 1892–18 June 1979) was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Birmingham, England, best known for his prolific and popular books on Britain and the Holy Land.

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