Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness."
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Burning
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Rich Mullins
Musician
"Theres a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own And He keeps His fire burning To melt this heart of stone Keeps me aching with a yearning Keeps me glad to have been caught In the reckless raging fury That they call the love of God"
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out."
Muhammad Iqbal
Poet, Philosopher
"When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry."
Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.Everything passes."
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"No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for."
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"Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love"
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"I had so much fire in me and so many plans."
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"A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth."
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"A thought often makes us hotter than a fire."
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"Pouring out liquor is like burning books."
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"Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off."
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"May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you?"
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"The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race"
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"Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment."
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"I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself."
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"By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization."
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"The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations."
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"Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us."
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"One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning."
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"What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike."
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"I saw my hometown burning that day."
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"Life consists of burning up questions."
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"Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring."
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"It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire."
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