Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Husband 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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Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

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The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

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There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

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I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

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Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

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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

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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... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Passion Quotes , Fire Quotes

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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