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“Fit to give weight to smoke.
[Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.]”
Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (V, 20)
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“Out of the frying pan into the fire.”
Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (V, 20)
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“Flame is very near to smoke.
[Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Curculio (act I, 1, 53)
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“Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire.”
Alexander Pope Quotes 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.]”
Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus) Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Poet at I, i)
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“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta at I, ii)
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“In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live.”
Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) Quotes Source: Arcadia
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“O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Ode (IV, 53), (Knight's edition)
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