Virginia Woolf Quotes, Fire Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.

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An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Fire Quotes

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

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes

That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Fire Quotes , Faithful 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

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

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fire Quotes , Heaven 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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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Fire Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Love Quotes , Fire Quotes

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Fire Quotes , Would Be Quotes

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Persistence Quotes , Fire Quotes

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.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , Fire Quotes

The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Husband Quotes , Fire Quotes

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

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The process of dying begins with the dissolution of the elements within the body. It has eight stages, beginning with the dissolution of the earth element, then the water, fire and windelements. The color: appearance of a white vision, increase of the red element, black near-attainment, and finally the clear light of death.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Death Quotes , Fire Quotes

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

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Tags : Al Gore Quotes , Taken Quotes , Fire Quotes

Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Fire Quotes , May Quotes

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Fire Quotes , Camels Quotes

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Fire Quotes , Flames Quotes