Quotes with kindled

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• Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

  ― Midrash
   
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• 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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• 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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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• diminishing
• hieroglyphs
• afterwards
• unexpected
• container
• brightest

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