Quotes with flint

  • Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
  • 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.''

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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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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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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • John Butler Yeats Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
    John Butler Yeats
    Irish painter (1839 - 1922)
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  • Félix Lope de Vega Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.
    Félix Lope de Vega
    Spanish playwright and poet (1562 - 1635)
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  • M. Henry Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
    M. Henry
     
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