Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Love Quotes, Fire Quotes

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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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

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You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

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They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Fire Quotes , Suffering Quotes

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

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Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Fire Quotes , Years Quotes

Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

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

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

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You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again.

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To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Science Quotes , Fire Quotes

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Fire Quotes , Clouds Quotes

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Fire Quotes , Flames Quotes

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

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Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

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