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Fire Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
- We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk:…
- Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
- Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting…
- The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
- In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the…
- Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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