"The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire."
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"In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time."
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"Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret."
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"The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire."
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"Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel."
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"The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp."
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"For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice."
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"The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night."
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"So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink."
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"But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror."
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"I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house."
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"Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken."
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"Who needs to walk on fire, when you can walk on water with this site."
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"If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours."
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"My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears."
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"Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there."
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"Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others."
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"I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone."
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"In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you."
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"I’m a journalist; I run to the fire, that’s what we do."
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