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• Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

  Rumi

  People, Spiritual Growth, Ends

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• Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Muse, Invention

  'Henry V' (1599) chorus, l. 1

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• The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Thieves, Sun

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.401

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• I love all the things there are,
  and of all fires
  love is the only inexhaustible one;
  and that's why I go from life to life.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspirational, Inspirational Love, Love Is

  "The Poetry of Pablo Neruda".

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• Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Blessing, Air

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• Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Achievement, Desire, Heat

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

  Jerry Smith

  Pleasure, Playing With Fire

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• I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Ice, Mountain, Needs

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• Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Trust, Stars

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• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wisdom, Educational

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• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Reading, Healing

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

  Delmore Schwartz

  New Year, Time, School

  "For Rhoda" l. 40 (1938)

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• A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Heart

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.4, l.101-2.

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• Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Coal, Affection

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 65, l.387-8.

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• The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

  Cus D'Amato

  Hero, Preparation, Coward

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• We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Wisdom, Easter

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• To learn to read is to light a fire.

  Victor Hugo

  Light

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.184, Wildside Press LLC

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  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

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• Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Life, Time, Rivers

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Comfort

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.38

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• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Time, Heart, Profound

  "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire". Address delivered for Memorial Day at Keene, New Hampshire, before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic, people.virginia.edu. May 30, 1884.

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• When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.

  Steven Moffat

  Dark, Men, Naked

  "Inferno". m.imdb.com. 2000.

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