"Let anger's fire be slow to burn."
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"Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire."
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"Greene wood makes a hott fire."
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"It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw."
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"Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out."
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"Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us."
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"Books cannot be killed by fire."
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"Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God."
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"You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time."
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"He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon"
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"She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?” “Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, “Fire and blood."
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"Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire."
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"We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn."
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"If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally."
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"It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack."
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"I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth."
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"It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts."
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"Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly."
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"The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness."
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"Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth."
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