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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."
"I saw my hometown burning that day."
"Life consists of burning up questions."
"Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring."
"It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire."
"Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man."
"Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building."
"We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed."
"unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it"
"Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom."
"I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames."
"Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real."
"Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!"
"It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment."
"If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature."
"One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."
"There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing."
"The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture."
"Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession."
"He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice."
