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Lanterns Quotes

If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way

If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way

Nichiren
Light, Way, Lanterns

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

Emily Dickinson
Lanterns
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.139, Courier Corporation

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

Plato
Hope For The Future, Lanterns, Ifs

You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.

Rumi
Light, Thousand, Lanterns

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

Samuel Johnson
Light, Language, Lanterns

I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take.

Nahoko Uehashi
Country, Path, Lanterns
Nahoko Uehashi (2014). “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.

John Ashbery
Travel, Mad, Jack O Lanterns
"Puff Piece". www.newyorker.com. July 12, 2010.

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

Cassandra Clare
Past, Jack O Lanterns, Faces
Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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