Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Fire Quotes, Suffering Quotes

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

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I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Fire Quotes , Flames Quotes

A burnt finger remember the fire.

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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Learning Quotes , Fire Quotes

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Fire Quotes , Body Quotes

It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes, that have announced that they've got nuclear warheads, fire missiles. This is not the way you conduct business in the world. This is not the way that peaceful nations conduct their affairs.

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The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

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Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Fire Quotes , Clouds Quotes

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

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If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

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Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Fire Quotes , Clouds Quotes

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

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Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.

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Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

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To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Science Quotes , Fire Quotes

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Kissing Quotes , Fire Quotes

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Fire Quotes