Charles Dickens Quotes, Fire Quotes, Wish Quotes

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

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Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Love Quotes , Fire Quotes

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Fire Quotes , Soul Quotes

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fire Quotes , Literature Quotes

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fire Quotes , People Quotes

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Fire Quotes , Filling Quotes

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Fire Quotes

Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.

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Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

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All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Fire Quotes , Openness Quotes

It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes, that have announced that they've got nuclear warheads, fire missiles. This is not the way you conduct business in the world. This is not the way that peaceful nations conduct their affairs.

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No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives

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Tags : AB de Villiers Quotes , Fire Quotes , Hot Quotes

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Fire Quotes

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.

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Tags : Al Aronowitz Quotes , Fire Quotes , Islands Quotes

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Sunset Quotes , Fire Quotes

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fire Quotes , Hazards Quotes

Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

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Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Fire Quotes

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fire Quotes , Tragedy Quotes