440 Quotes About Flames

  • Author Walter Scott
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    When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

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  • Author William Sharp
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    The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

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  • Author Alexis de Tocqueville
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    Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

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  • Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
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    This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

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  • Author Allen Tate
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    Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.

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  • Author Andrei Tarkovsky
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    History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul

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  • Author Bayard Taylor
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    The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.

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  • Author David Taras
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    The judgement of the party is clear. He can go down in flames kicking and screaming or go down with dignity.

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