Famous quotes containing the words small and/or candle:
“Do but consider this small dust, here running in the glass,
By atoms moved.
Could you believe that this the body was
Of one that loved?
And in his mistress flame playing like a fly,
Turned to cinders by her eye?
Yes, and in death as life unblest,
To havet expressed,
Even ashes of lovers find no rest.”
—Ben Jonson (15721637)
“... But a coarse old man am I,
I choose the second-best,
I forget it all awhile
Upon a womans breast.
Day-break and a candle end.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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