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  • Bert Lance If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Jeremy Taylor If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Buddy Wakefield If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
    Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bill Pascrell In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer 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.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
    Æsop's Fables, Reflection
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • Horace It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Louisa May Alcott It takes two flints to make a fire.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Buddha Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Cormac McCarthy Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Charles Dickens Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Samuel Johnson Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Washington Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Bayard Taylor Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • William Hazlitt Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Joan Crawford Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
    Joan Crawford
    American basketball player (1904 - 1977)
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