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The lighthouse does great service to humanity; yet it is the slave

The lighthouse does great service to humanity; yet it is the slave of those who trim the lamps. – Alice Wellington Rollins (1847–1897)

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It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do exactly that. Just take a step to one side. Dissolve into a north-westerly wind as it whirled around the lighthouse at North Point, then out across the sea. – John Ajvide Lindqvist, Harbor, 2008, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Del

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Once the lighthouse is seen, the rest of the sea is ignored. – Terri Guillemets

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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. – Benjamin Franklin

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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. – Immanuel Kant

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