Quotes with kindled

  • Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
  • Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

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  • Midrash Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
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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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  • 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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  • Dorothea Brande Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Samuel Johnson Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Plutarch The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Henry Miller Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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