Francis Bacon Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Fire Quotes

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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

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She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Girl Quotes , Fire Quotes

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

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The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

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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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A burnt finger remember the fire.

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This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fire Quotes , Air Quotes

I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?

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

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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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Simple Quotes , Fire Quotes

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Fire Quotes , Would Be Quotes

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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A burnt finger remember the fire.

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Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

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Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

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