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“When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns.”

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.”

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.”

Ifs Remember Music Fire Objects Red Gold Filled Painter Colour Concerts Rainbow Orchestra Violin

Author:James Elkins

“Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.”

Fire Objects Inspire Summer Clouds Electric Flash Kindred

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.”

Source: The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington

“Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.”

Men Needs Force Loss Grief Fire Objects Circumstances Tests Absolutes Endure Absence Separation Beloved Indifference Crucible Grief Loss

Book:Max

Source: Max

“The object of our serch is the fire of grace which enters into the heart.”

Heart Fire Grace Objects

Author:Theophan the Recluse

“The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.”

Men Trying Party Fire Greater Objects He Man Flags Traitor

Author:David Lloyd George

“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.”