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  • William Shakespeare Doubt thou, the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Butler Yeats Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • William Butler Yeats Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Frank Crane Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • B. W. Powe Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 75
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • William Cowper Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Paul De Man Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Harry Houdini Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Seneca Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Free speech is the right to shout Theater! in a crowded fire.
    Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Bayard Taylor From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Genius is initiative on fire.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Denis Waitley Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Burton Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.
    Burton
     
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  • Abraham Cahan God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Francis Bacon Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • George Washington Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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