Fire Quotes - Page 40

• The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Animal

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.152, Graphic Arts Books

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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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Doe, Doctrine

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.385, Penguin

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• Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Mountain, Stills

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• Information may inform the mind, but revelation sets a heart on fire.

  Matt Redman

  Heart, Mind, May

  Twitter post from Nov 15, 2010

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• There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Winter, Cold

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.47, Penguin

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• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Selfish, Umpires

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.185, Penguin

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Sadness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.9

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• Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?

  Nicolas Caussin

  Ambition, Wind, Issues

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• A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

  Wallis Simpson

  Marriage, Emotional, Long

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• Fir : it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Air, Flames, Class

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 6, c. 15 BC.

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• The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Air, Water, Sap

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 14), circa 15 BC.

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• Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Wit

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• Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,
  Daughter of Elysium!
  Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing
  Goddess, to thy shrine we come.
  Thy sweet magic brings together
  What stern Custom spreads afar;
  All men become brothers
  Where thy happy wing-beats are.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Daughter, Sweet, Brother

  "Ode to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller, (Stanza 1), 1785.

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• you must not use wood to put out the fire.

  Bette Lord

  Use, Woods, Futility

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• The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Adversity, Mass, Acquaintance

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• I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Poetry, Forgiving, Obscurity

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.316, OUP Oxford

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• Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

  August Strindberg

  Happiness, Forever, Height

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• There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fear, Anger, Earth

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• On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Queens, Males

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• Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Friendship, Appreciation, Heart

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
  But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
  Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hot, Rage

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a memoir and essay on his genius by Barry Cornwall: also annotations and remarks by many writers, illustr. with engr. from designs by K. Meadows”

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• Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

  Richard Whately

  Reason, Inference, Draws

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• From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Strong, Eye, Use

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• Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ideas, Space, Profound

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