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"No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide."
"If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time."
"If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire."
"Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in."
"Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease."
"The best fire doesna flare up the soonest."
"There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel."
"I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease."
"There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape."
"The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from."
"One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down."
"To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]"
"Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin."
"Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]"
"The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire."
"To play at Chesse when the house is on fire."
"Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]"
"Water a farre off quencheth not fire."
"You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out."
"Working and making a fire doth discretion require."
