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  • There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
  • As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
  • At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
  • I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
  • Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
  • Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
  • Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
  • In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
  • But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
  • When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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  • George Bernard Shaw A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Roy L. Smith Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • Anais Nin A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked…
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Comte DeBussy-Rabutin Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
    Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
     
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  • Emily Dickinson If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • George Orwell So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Bryson To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • William Blake ''When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?'' O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying ''Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.''
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Margaret Fuller A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Bill Flores A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they're called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Albert Pike A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bono Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • John Donne And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • T. S. Eliot And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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