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“Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.”

Water Woods Flames Engines Drag Engineers

Author:Maria Weston Chapman

“Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals. We cannot sell the lives of men and animals. It was put here by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us”

“As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.”

Mind Stills Two Water Masters Becoming Method Flames Pool Still Waters Becoming God

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself -- and, since the woman knows nothing about it, she is not to blame. For if a man incites himself to drown, and will not restrain himself, it is not the water's fault.”

Ifs Knows Men Mind I Can Water Imagination Taken Blame Faults Wit Deception Flames

Author:John Gower

“I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.”

Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

“On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. … I admitted water to it [the extracted air], and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame… I was utterly at a loss how to account for it.”

Wells Mean I Can Found Water Loss Air Accounts Flames Candle Burned Lenses August Vigorous Mercury

Author:J. B. Priestley

“If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.”

Ifs Love Firsts Water Conquer Flames Drop Of Water Sprinkles

Author:Ovid

“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you, when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.”

Names Water Walks Fire Mines Angel Rivers Flames Burned Fear Not Redeemed Do Not Fear

Author:Isaiah

“If your fire begins to flame, don't spray water on it, which most people do. Instead, just close your dampers and the fire will go out because fire must have oxygen.”

People Ifs Water Fire Flames Oxygen Spray

Author:Johnny Trigg