“ Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. ”
- John Wesley- Copy
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“ Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out. ”
- Billy Graham- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”
- Joan Crawford- Copy
- 583
“ 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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“ Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 2K
“ Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. ”
- Delmore Schwartz- Copy
- 337
“ Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods,And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. ”
- William Allingham- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.9K
“ As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2K
“ Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn'. ”
- Sarah Bernhardt- Copy
- 375
“ Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 3.1K
“ No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out. ”
- Arthur Lydiard- 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
- 1.5K
“ Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In th' artic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ My mind gave me, In seeking tales and informations Against this man, whose honesty the devil And his disciples only envy at, Ye blew the fire that burns ye: now have at ye! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. ”
- Ned Rorem- Copy
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“ I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. ”
- John Webster- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1K
“ Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; they have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ”
- Jack Kerouac- Copy
- 608
“ There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure to this infinite freshness of life, and the ancient novelty is forever renewed. We realize the world better if we imagine it, not as a Progress to Prim Perfection, but as the sustained upleaping of a Fountain, the pillar of a Glorious Flame… ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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