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  • Samuel Butler Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Thomas à Kempis 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.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Bhagavad Gita As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Ovid As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • E. M. Forster At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • T. Boone Pickens Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Maya Angelou Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Samuel Johnson Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • A. E. Housman But from my grave across my brow
    Plays no wind of healing now,
    And fire and ice within me fight
    Beneath the suffocating night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 30, st. 4
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin Whorf But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Buddy Rich 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.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • George Herbert Calmness is great advantage; he that lets another chafe, may warm him at his fire.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Martin Luther 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.
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  • John Wesley Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Billy Graham Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Camilla Lackberg Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Elizabeth Jennings Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
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