"Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star"
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"Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames."
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"Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish."
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"One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy."
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"She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames."
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"All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga."
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"All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?"
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"Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps."
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"The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off."
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"If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete."
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"At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again."
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"I feel again a spark of that ancient flame."
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"Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain."
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"Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life."
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"I feel the flame of eternity in my soul."
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"Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame."
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"Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure."
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"Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see."
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"Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn."
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"Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements."
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