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  • The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

    Children   Book   Reading  
    Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

    Moving   Torches   Worms  
    Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.96
  • Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

    "Hyperion" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853.
  • You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  • For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

    Dark   Shining   Worms  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.46, Arthur Schopenhauer
  • He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.

    Men   Light   Attention  
    Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.341
  • The young May moon is beaming, love. The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love. How sweet to rove, Through Morna's grove, When the drowsy world is dreaming, love! Then awake! - the heavens look bright, my dear, 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!

    Dream   Sweet   Spring  
    'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'The young May moon'
  • The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

    T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.175, Faber & Faber
  • True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

    Eye   Shining   Heaven  
    Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.444
  • Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!

    Aleister Crowley (2012). “The Best of the Equinox, Enochian Magic”, p.141, Weiser Books
  • The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

    Space   Light   Eagles  
    Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.41, Broadview Press
  • We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

    Quoted in Violet Bonham-Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965)
  • Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

    Fall   Ambition   Cutting  
    John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.185, Manchester University Press
  • We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm

  • When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

    Eye   Dark   Light  
    Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.323
  • For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

    Light   Poet   Worms  
    Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.411
  • Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

    'The Duchess of Malfi' (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 148
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