Lord Byron Quotes, Truth Quotes, Fire Quotes

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Love Quotes , Fire Quotes

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fire Quotes , Long 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

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

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

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Men Quotes , Fire Quotes

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

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I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Fire Quotes , Feelings Quotes

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

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Tags : Agnes Sligh Turnbull Quotes , Fire Quotes , Talking Quotes

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

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

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Fire Quotes

Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , War Quotes , Fire Quotes

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Fire Quotes , Soul Quotes

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

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Fire Quotes , Agony Quotes

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

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Fire Quotes , Religion Quotes

There are five kinds of incendiary attack: The first is called setting fire to personnel; the second, to stores; the third, to transport vehicles and equipment; the fourth, to munitions; the fifth, to supply installations...In all cases an army must understand the changes induced by the five kinds of incendiary attack, and make use of logistical calculations to address them.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Army Quotes , Fire Quotes

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fire Quotes , Doe Quotes

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Eye Quotes , Fire Quotes

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Fire Quotes , Fuel Quotes