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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges the gross elements of matter - a spark of celestial fire, by which life is kindled and preserved, and which, if even the instruments it employs are indestructible in their essence, must itself, of necessity, be immortal.

Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

Doncaster will hit Villa with fire and broomstick.

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" _x000D__x000D_do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance_x000D__x000D_of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.

I want a love like Johnny and June _x000D__x000D_Rings of fire burnin' with you _x000D__x000D_I wanna walk the line, walk the line _x000D__x000D_Til' the end of time _x000D__x000D_I wanna love, love ya that much _x000D__x000D_Cash it on it give it all up _x000D__x000D_And baby when your gone I wanna go too _x000D__x000D_Like Johnny and June

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.

We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.

You may fire when you are ready Gridley.

It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip into the unknown with a moment's hesitation.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: 'I bet there were more standing pricks than snotty noses tonight'. Astonishingly, I suspect he was right. We probably helped to keep the home fires of passion burning.

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.