“ There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. ”
- Reggie Leach- Copy
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“ When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. ”
- Whoopi Goldberg- Copy
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“ Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. ”
- Overlung- Copy
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“ Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. ”
- Johann Gottfried Von Herder- Copy
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“ A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people. ”
- Donald Trump- Copy
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“ I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. ”
- Fidel Castro- Copy
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“ The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. ”
- Felix Adler- Copy
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“ Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. ”
- Johan August Strindberg- Copy
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“ And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
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“ Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. ”
- Thomas Overbury- Copy
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“ The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame Provokes itself and like the current flies Each bound it chafes. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe? ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ”
- Arnold H. Glasow- Copy
- 2.2K
“ There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
- 706
“ Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 2.7K
“ To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ”
- Walter Pater- Copy
- 2.8K
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