Fire Quotes - Page 4

• The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Passion, Excess, Way

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Simplicity, Simple Life, World

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2

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• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Burning, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.36, Classic Books Company

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• A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Burning, Enthusiasm, Hotter

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Kavanagh, and Other Pieces”, p.364

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• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Cancer, Anger

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.

  Libba Bray

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

  Bryant H. McGill

  Illumination, Darkness, Mind

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• One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

  Odell Shepard

  Hands, Feet, Woods

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• Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

  Dante Alighieri

  Beauty, Heat, Eternity

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• The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

  Martin Puryear

  Grieving, Mobility, Incredibles

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• Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

  Ann Landers

  Loyalty, Love Is, Mutual Benefit

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

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• Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

  Quoted in Newsweek, 28 Mar. 1960

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• Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

  Mary Oliver

  Names, Sunrise, Want

  Mary Oliver (2014). “Dream Work”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Bullying, Fake People, Army

  Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Young duke and Count Alarcos”

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• Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Masters, Servant, Fireman

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.88

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• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  1590-1 Julia to Lucetta.TheTwo Gentlemen ofVerona, act 2, sc.7, l.18-20.

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• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Eye, Heart

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• The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

  Pierre Corneille

  Ashes, Slumber, Seems

  "Rodogune". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1644.

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• When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

  Dylan Thomas

  Nice, Bridges, Lifeboats

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• Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Frying Pans, Thai, Leap

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

  Aesop

  Life, Passion, Water

  "Aesop's Fables". Book by Aesop (Fable XXXVIII "A Horse and an Asse"),

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• Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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