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Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.”

Kind Made Eye Results Lovers Reflection Perfection Finished Accidents Obligation Flames Abandoned Worthless Fatigue Abandonment Weariness Irritation

Author:Paul Valery

“To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.”

Husband Flames Repose

Book:The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield

“One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they sent one of their members to go and check on it. The scouting moth circled the candle several times and came back with a description: The light was bright. Then a second moth went to examine it. He, too, came back with an observation: The light was hot. Finally a third moth volunteered to go. When he approached the candle he didn't stop like his friends had done, but flew straight into the flame. He was consumed there and then, and only he understood the nature of the light.”

Done Light Night Groups Members Understood Thirds Hot Checks Observation Burning Flames Description Candle Shelves Consumed One Night Flew Moths Puzzled Scouting

Author:Elif Safak

“Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.”

Action Deeds Flames Brilliance Phosphorus

Author:Andre Gide

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.”

World Feels Generations Feet Trade Shining Flames Toil Grandeur Foils

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.”

World Greatness Shining Oil Flames Crushed Grandeur Foils

Book:God's Grandeur

Source: God's Grandeur

“Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled?”

Made Life Is Death Heaven Fire Inspire Equal Elements Spring Breaths Flames Immortal Fables

Author:Francis Quarles

“How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?”

Thinking Men May Soul Desire Fire Flames Anxious Fever Being Cool Hectic

Book:Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man

Source: Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man

“O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.”

Ends Hell Fire Pride Lust Smoke Flames Fuel Ashes Sparkle Gluttony Wanton Infamy

Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

“Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having foolishly divided the heaven into parts, you should be anxious as to the quarter from which the flying flame may come, or to what region it may betake itself; and tremble to think how it penetrates through walled enclosures, and how, having exercised its power, it extricates itself from them. Of which phenomena the multitude can by no means see the causes, and think that they are accomplished by supernatural power.”

Source: On the Nature of Things

“I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.”

People World Women This World Flames Attractive Dancer Moths

Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

“It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?”

Ifs Thinking Should Earth Turns Walks Sea Feet Glasses Flames What If Belly Scarlet Seething

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed. The rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows.”

Men Giving Should Heart Light Fighting Evil Force Wish Causes Sides Results Rich Changed Comfort Sight Fellows Contact Employment Flames Oppressed Awakened Torches

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse; and where there is equally vigorous effort, like distinction and success will almost surely follow. Thus the chain of example is carried down through time in an endless succession of links--admiration exciting imitation, and perpetuating the true aristocracy of genius.”

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.”

Should Wells Persons Evil House Cities Late Flames Too Late Chairs Carrier

Book:THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“Silence is like a flame, you see?”

Silence Flames Silence Is

Author:Marcel Marceau

“Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.”

World Light Seems Form Sound Produce Color Flames Spoken Word Intonation

Author:Johannes Itten

“The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about the strength of his limbs to carry her, or the zeal of his heart to rescue her; but she clings. The heat is terrible, the smoke is blinding, but she clings; and her deliverer quickly bears her to safety. In the same childlike confidence cling to Jesus, who can and will bear you out of danger from the flames of sin.”