Quotes with fire-arms

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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.
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  • Aristotle Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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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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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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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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  • Juvenal A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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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 David Thoreau A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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