440 Quotes About Flames

  • Author William Hazlitt
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    The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

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  • Author Xaviera Hollander
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    I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

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  • Author Daisaku Ikeda
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    Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

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  • Author Ivan Illich
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    Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.

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  • Author Jay Inslee
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    Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

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  • Author Muhammad Iqbal
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    Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

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  • Author James Joyce
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    In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

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  • Author James Joyce
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    I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

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