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  • Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fire Quotes , Numbers Quotes
  • Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Wind Quotes , Fire Quotes
  • Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes