It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness

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Solving a problem and not just complain about it

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William Lonsdale Watkinson used the expression in The Supreme Conquest, and other sermons preached in America, 1907: But denunciatory rhetoric is so much easier and cheaper than good works, and proves a popular temptation. Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.