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Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.
Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue
among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth
on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Author: Bible
Source: James (ch. III, v. 5-6)
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If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be
thirsty, give him water to drink.
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord
shall reward thee.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 21-22)
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Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 3,881), The Reeve's Tale
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Words pregnant with celestial fire.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Boadicea (33)
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Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Elegy (46)
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E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 23), Gray says it was suggested by Plutarch
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A crooked log makes a strait fire
[A crooked log makes a straight fire.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on
fire.
[Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 18, 84)
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: The Devil is an Ass (act I, sc. 2)
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Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this
day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust
shall never be put out.
Author: Hugh Latimer
Source: The Martyrdom (p. 523)
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There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
Author: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
Source: Euphes and his Emphoebus (p. 153), (Arber's Reprint)
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All the fatt's in the fire.
Author: John Marston
Source: What You Will (1607)
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Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 77)
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They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
Author: Sir Thomas More
Source: Dial (bk. II, ch. I, folio LXIII, b)
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Fit to give weight to smoke.
[Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.]
Author: Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (V, 20)
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Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Author: Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (V, 20)
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Flame is very near to smoke.
[Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Curculio (act I, 1, 53)
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Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount, on her leaving the Town after the Coronation
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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit
incendium.]
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)
Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VI, 3, 11)
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A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Clarence at IV, viii)
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The fire i' th' flint
Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame
Provokes itself and like the current flies
Each bound it chafes.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Poet at I, i)
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Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta at I, ii)
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In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live.
Author: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
Source: Arcadia
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O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Ode (IV, 53), (Knight's edition)
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