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“A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.”

Men Heart May Passion Cases Fire Wind Add Arise Burning Ignite Wild Passion

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Eloquence may set fire to reason.”

May Reason Fire Eloquence Eloquent Incitement

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“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, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.”

Wells May Sides Forever Fire Faults Woods Sparks Steel Both Sides Quarrels Hammers

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Where two or three are met together, the prayer of one strikes fire from the soul of another; and the latter in his turn leads the way to nobler heights of devotion. And lo! as their joy increases, there is One in their midst whom they all recognize and cling to. He was there before, but it is only when their hearts begin to burn that they recognize Him; and in a true sense they may be said to bring Him there.”

Way Heart May Said Two Soul Together Joy Turns Three Prayer Fire Mets Increase Strikes Devotion Height Latter Midst

Author:James Stalker

“Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.”

May Moments Fire Keys Succeed Intention Fingers Affair Motive Damage Cunning Chestnuts Watchfulness

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.”

Wells May Fire Smell

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!”

Knows Giving May Walks Fire Our Lives Land Green Grass Locks Purple Brows Torches Meadows Garlands Punctual Attire May Day Spring May

Book:The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor

Source: The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor

“None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon after climbing a snowy peak; and the fair play and tremendous impartiality of Nature, so tellingly displayed, will surely affect the after pleadings of the lawyer. Fresh air at least will get into everybody, and the cares of mere business will be quenched like the fires of a sinking ship.”

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.”

May Country Whole Seems Together Easy Fire Sky Safe Summer Lows Destruction Environmental Woods Destroyed Our Country Smoke Landscape Doomed Boundless

Book:The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails

Source: The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails

“Every attempt to reflect upon the Atonement, to study it, to embrace it, to express appreciation for it, however small or feeble it may be, will kindle the fires of faith and work its miracle towards a more Christlike life. It is an inescapable consequence of so doing. We become like those things we habitually love and admire. And thus, as we study Christ’s life and live his teachings, we become more like him.”

May Christ Study Fire Teaching Consequence Miracle Embrace Appreciation Admire Atonement Kindles Express Appreciation

Author:Tad R. Callister

“The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.”

May Jobs Loss Fire Genius Needed Wake Up Wake Up Call

Author:Dan Miller

“A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England

“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

“Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy.”

Ifs Mind May Matter Joy Fire Bears Occasions Chemicals Oxygen Reunion Cowgirls Reuniting

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.”

May School Memories Rooms Fire Minutes Color Unique All Things Burning Flash Smallest Globes Spinning Flare

Author:Delmore Schwartz