Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Self Quotes, Flames Quotes

Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

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The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

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Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

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He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

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From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

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The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

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Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

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The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

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you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

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She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

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The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

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Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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