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Great eloquence, like fire, grows with its material; it becomes fiercer with movement, and brighter as it burns.
Tacitus
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I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
Michel de Montaigne
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The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think perhaps it wasn't a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it's nice and hot by the fire, there's something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep.
Agatha Christie
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For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
Rabindranath Tagore
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That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
William Shakespeare
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If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
Martin Luther
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Blind ignorance misleads us thus and delights with the results of lascivious joys. Because it does not know the true light. Because it does not know what is the true light. Vain splendour takes from us the power of being.... behold! for its vain splendour we go into the fire, thus blind ignorance does mislead us. That is, blind ignorance so misleads us that... O! wretched mortals, open your eyes.
Leonardo da Vinci
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There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
Winston Churchill
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Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to 'Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn 'Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's Apostle forbade it, saying, 'Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment (fire).' I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah's Apostle, 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"
Muhammad
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The flowery way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire.
William Shakespeare
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If I were running my business, I'd fire Rosie, I mean, I'd look her right in that fat ugly face of hers and say, "Rosie, you're fired."
Donald Trump
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I have gone marking the blank atlas of your body
with crosses of fire.
My mouth went across: a spider, trying to hide.
In you, behind you, timid, driven by thirst.
Pablo Neruda
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Kiki-The-Demure:
Once when I was little She tried to give me castor oil. I scratched and bit her so, she never tried again. Ha! She must have thought she held the devil between her knees. I squirmed, blew fire through my nostrils, multiplied my twenty claws by a hundred, my teeth by one thousand, and finally — disappeared as if by magic.
Toby-Dog:
I wouldn't dare do that. You see, I love her. I love her enough to forgive her even the torture of the bath.
Colette
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Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.
Charles Dickens
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
Charles Darwin
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She was a form of life and light
That seen, became a part of sight,
And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye,
The morning-star of memory!
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Alla given,
To lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron
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I still hold... that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.
G. K. Chesterton
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It is a heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in 't.
William Shakespeare
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.... it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.
Mark Twain
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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine.
William Shakespeare
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The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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