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Michael Faraday

1861 · London, England · Ending the Christmas lectures in which he taught children science with a single candle

all I can say to you at the end of these lectures (for we must come to an end at one time or other) is to express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.

The Chemical History of a Candle, the last lecture

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Rabindranath Tagore রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

1916 · Bengal, India

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

Stray Birds, 6

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Peter Abelard Petrus Abaelardus

c. 1132 · Paris, France

Often examples do more than words to stir or to soothe human feelings.

Sepe humanos affectus aut provocant aut mittigant amplius exempla quam verba.

The Story of My Misfortunes (Historia calamitatum), the first sentence

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Miyazawa Kenji 宮沢賢治

1924 · Iwate, Japan

The phenomenon called "I" is a single blue illumination of a presupposed organic alternating-current lamp.

わたくしといふ現象は 仮定された有機交流電燈の ひとつの青い照明です

Spring and Asura (Haru to shura), preface

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