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Fire Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
- The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and…
- No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man…
- Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to…
- A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
- If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect…
- In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint,…
- Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and…
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- Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. — Ludwig van Beethoven