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• There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Home, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.18

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• Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Knowledge, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Passion, Blow

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• O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.

  James Boswell

  Strong, Fire, Soul

  James Boswell, John Wain (1994). “The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795”, p.6, Yale University Press

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• Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.

  Omar Khayyam

  Love, Eye, Heart

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• The crazy thing is that when we go to somebody's house, what's better than looking at their bookshelves? Nobody's ever going to say, "Can I see the index to your Kindle?" It's so depressing and so unsexy. Sure, it's there, but nobody is going to get excited by that.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Depressing, Crazy, House

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, New Relationship, Want

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a revolution in the way that we consume creative property, which I would call art. It has radically changed the relationship between the artist and the audience, how money changes hands, and how much money changes hands. Music was the first, and books are coming next. The Kindle or some form of electronic book is clearly inevitable, and it will massively reshape how books are sold, who pays for them, and how they're consumed. It is going to be really fascinating.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Art, Book, Hands

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• The passions of love ignite, the emotions of love kindle, but the actions of love set the heart ablaze.

  Roger Smith

  Passion, Heart, Action

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• Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust.... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers.

  John Wesley

  Gay, Flames, Lust

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• It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

  Voltaire

  Book, Fire, Light

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4316, Delphi Classics

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• Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

  William Ellery Channing

  Art, Light, Sky

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.4

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• Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

  Peter Kreeft

  Fire, Catholic, Together

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• The Father, Who is Justice, is not without the Son or the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit, Who kindles the heart of the faithful, is not without the Father and the Son; and the Son, Who is the plenitude of fruition, is not without the Father or the Holy Spirit; they are inseparable in Divine Majesty.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Father, Heart, Son

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• Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Humble, Fire Of Love, Christ

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• So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30 to 45 minute prescheduling of tweets and just seeing if there's anything urgent - do-or-die emails or server outages, stuff like that. Then after that I go to the gym, where I do all my long-form reading - so Instapaper, and all the Kindle books. I go through an embarrassing amount of books per week.

  Maria Popova

  Morning, Book, Reading

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• Kindle in thy heart the flame of love.

  Rumi

  Heart, Flames

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.722, Delphi Classics

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• To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Heart, Wind, Sea

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• So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

  James Madison

  Strong, Fall, Passion

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.44

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• Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flames, Virtue

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Fire, Difficult

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• I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.

  Chad Hurley

  Coffee, Book, Use

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• Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

  Jeff Bezos

  Book, Vision, Language

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• Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle
  Such lamps within the dome of this dim world
  That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle
  Into the Hell from which it first was furled.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Names, Mind

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
  Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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