"Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals."
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"Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?"
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"The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome."
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"For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper. Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moon nor fire-fly has shown me the cause-way to it. Nature is a personality so vast and universal that we have never seen one of her features."
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"The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood."
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"I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again."
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"There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill."
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"Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact."
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"If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat."
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"I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire."
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"Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know."
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"There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren."
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"The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine."
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"This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out."
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"We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire."
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"Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat."
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"Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves."
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"And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire."
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"It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves."
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"They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!"
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