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“I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name, a precious Name, That can set that world on fire: Its sound is sweet, its letters flame. I know of a Name, a precious Name, 'Tis Jesus.”

Knows World Heart Jesus Names Sound Fire Sweet Letters Shame Flames Tire

Author:J. Chapman

“You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.”

“Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!”

Love Firsts Pain Young Desire Fire Sweet Gay Prove Approach

Book:Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love

Source: Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love

“The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!”

Years Literature Language White Fire Poet Sweet Flower Picks Independent Folks Forty Lovable Incense

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.”

War Reason Force Peace Fire Sweet Gun Cease Inches Dictator Syria Jersey New Jersey Lebanon Proxy

Author:William Safire

“Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.”

Men Together Joy Heaven Fire Magic Sweet Brother Beats Daughter Wings Spread Drunk Immortal Customs Sparks Goddess Advancing Afar Shrines Elysium

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“The fire of love and the cold of time, deprive my sweet love of his peace of mind.”

Mind Fire Sweet Cold Peace Of Mind Sweet Love Fire Of Love

Author:Lope de Vega

“Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.”

Ifs Sometimes Remember Fire Sweet Temptation Crush Burned Inappropriate Sweet Love Playing With Fire Having A Crush

Author:Joseph J. Ellis

“Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.”

People Ifs Way Giving May Desire Dies Fire Sweet Activity Fame Concerned Longing Fortune Ill Illness Excitement Taoism Flavor Candy Unreal Chewing Sexual Desire

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.”

World Ends Fire Sweet Taste Smoke Visible Hypocrisy Manifest Flattery

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God.”

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.”

Heart Fire Blood Mines Sweet Red Wine Rose Lips Wounds Wet Burned Lamps Bleeding Shrines Crimson Rubies Lotuses Red Lips Red Wine Pomegranates

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my measure, steadily.”

Source: The Flowers of Evil

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. *Here’s what love is: a smoke made out of lovers' sighs. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in your lover’s eyes. If you frustrate love, you get an ocean made out of lovers' tears. What else is love? It’s a wise form of madness. It’s a sweet lozenge that you choke on.*”

Ifs Made Eye Form Love Is Fire Wise Sea Love You Tears Sweet Lovers Ocean Madness Raised Burning Smoke Sigh Choke Sparkling Discreet Fire Burning Lovers Eyes

Author:William Shakespeare

“Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

Eye Love Is Fire Sea Tears Sweet Lovers Madness Smoke Sigh Choke Sparkling Discreet Romeo And Juliet Love Vex Lovers Eyes

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell.”

Whole Bits Fire Sweet Grew Heavy Smell Enchanting Marshes

Author:C. S. Lewis

“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.”

Ifs Knows Way Light Fire Sweet Wings Butterfly Butterfly Wings

Book:All Souls Trilogy

Source: All Souls Trilogy

“There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.”

Ifs Fire Sweet Built Woods Smell Wide Burning Apples

Book:The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons