"A being afire with life cannot foresee death;……" — Marguerite Yourcenar

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• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was… — Cyrano de Bergerac
• Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire — George Matthew Adams
• Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression — Lucretia Mott
• By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely… — Mark Twain
• In every man s life there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark that, if kindled, will set the… — James Cash Penney
• Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to… — Mark Twain
• We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right… — Will Rogers
• But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up… — Jose Marti
• When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire. — Patrick Rothfuss
• Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches. — Lisa Kleypas
• The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made… — Ray Bradbury

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