"She gets up while it is still dark... her lamp does not go out at night." Proverbs 31 "Burning ones candle at both ends" is often said about someone who's working too hard with too many things, and as a consequence has to stop before he or she is "done". It typically means that one is staying up too late at night and getting up too early in the morning in an attempt to get more things done. A candle is intended to be burned from one end to the other only. "To burn the candle at both … [Read more...]