“My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.” MenSoulJusticeLove IsFireMercyShameBlowSmokeFuelBreastsMetalsAshesCoalSighScornThornsFurnaces Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.” HumansCharacterBeliefJusticeEffortFireRevolutionIntensePotPrudenceGardenerOutragePrairieSecession Author:Judah P. Benjamin
“Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.” IfsLoveJusticeLove IsPleasureMarriageFireAliveShareSmartDifficultySensesCeaseHonourGroundedUsefulnessStaleConstancyPleasure Love Book:The Essays Source: The Essays
“Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine; an interminable one is disgraceful.” MeanLongSometimesEnoughJusticeCasesFireFineInvestigationThoroughProsecutorDisgraceful Author:Anna Quindlen
“As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.” IfsMenWisdomEarthPoliticsIndividualStarsJusticeEconomyFireRightsSeaOvercomingLiberalismIndividual RightsStrongholds Author:Lucan
“Deep in the human heart The fire of justice burns; A vision of a world renewed Through radical concern.” WorldHumansHeartJusticeVisionFireConcernRadicalHuman Heart Author:William Wallace
“When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.” PassionBornJusticeFireMarriedActivistMystic Author:Andrew Harvey
“There comes a time in every relationship when it's damaging to seek justice, when settling the score only stirs the fire. There comes a time when the best thing you can do is accept your brother and offer him the same grace you've been given.” GivenCan DoJusticeAcceptingFireGraceBrotherOffersBest ThingsSettlingScoreBitternessYour BrotherThere Comes A Time Author:Richard Walters