"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."
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"I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again."
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"Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me - because I recognized that, within me, there is this flame, of wishing it were better, wishing people had better lives, that there was more of an authentic sharing and harmony with nature."
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"The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide."
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"The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power."
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"Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself."
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"You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest."
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"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation"
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"Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame."
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"Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment"
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"Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks"
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"Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them."
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"Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core."
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"Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes."
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"This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes. I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration, Faces of people streaming across my gaze."
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"A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool."
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"Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day."
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"I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold."
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"The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth."
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"When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns."
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