Water And Fire Quotes

• Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

  Hannah More

  Love, Fire, Water

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• The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Sunset, Fire, Sky

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (1981). “The Unspeakable Skipton”

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• It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

  Aesop

  Life, Passion, Fire

  "Aesop's Fables". Book by Aesop (Fable XXXVIII "A Horse and an Asse"),

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• As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Heart, Fire

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

  Fernand Leger

  Fire, Water, Needs

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• Words are good servants but bad masters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Masters, Servant

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• Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before you at the very moment of his death, pass no judgment, because the judgment of God is hidden from men. It has happened that men have sinned greatly in the open but have done greater deeds in secret, so that those who would disparage them have been fooled, with smoke instead of sunlight in their eyes.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Eye, Men

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• The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the universe, whole and holy. From one source, endless creative energy, bursting forth, kinetic, elemental; we, the earth, air, water and fire-source of nearly fifteen billion years of cosmic spiraling.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Stars, Fire, Air

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• until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?

  Eloise Lownsbery

  Fire, Air, Water

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• The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

  Fernand Leger

  Fire, Water, Joy

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• Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

  Confucius

  Integrity, Men, Fire

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Friendship, Fire

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fire, Water, Brave

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fire, Iron, Water

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.74, Dial Press

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• Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Horse, Animal

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