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“When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.”
Irish Sayings Quotes |
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“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
Martha Graham Quotes |
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“Fire is never a gentle master”
Proverb Quotes |
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“Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight”
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“Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.”
Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
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“Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure!”
Joseph Kallinger Quotes |
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“Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.”
Otto Weininger Quotes |
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“Fire is the most tolerable third party”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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“Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.”
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“We don't negotiate the deal. We're just the matchmakers.”
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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.”
Bible Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 21-22)
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“Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 3,881), The Reeve's Tale
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“Words pregnant with celestial fire.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Boadicea (33)
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“Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.”
Thomas Gray Quotes 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.”
Thomas Gray Quotes 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.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]”
George Herbert Quotes 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.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 18, 84)
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“The burnt child dreads the fire.”
Ben Jonson Quotes 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.”
Hugh Latimer Quotes Source: The Martyrdom (p. 523)
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“There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.”
John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes Source: Euphes and his Emphoebus (p. 153), (Arber's Reprint)
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“All the fatt's in the fire.”
John Marston Quotes Source: What You Will (1607)
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“Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 77)
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“They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.”
Sir Thomas More Quotes Source: Dial (bk. II, ch. I, folio LXIII, b)
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