"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire."

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"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire."

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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

Fire,

"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Spanish Poet

Fire, Jealousy

"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."

Renae A. Sauter, American Writer

Fire, Release, Healing, Peace, Mindfulness

"I did mostly good things, except light things on fire."

Mark Hoppus, American Musician

Fire, Light

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

Max Muller, German Educator

Fire, Light, Reality, Reflection

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

Imran Khan, Pakistani Athlete

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"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire."

Garth Brooks, American Musician

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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy."

Spirit

"About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury."

Danger

"If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war."

War

"War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth."

Man

"The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery."

Military

"Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now."

Sports

"But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me."

War

"Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges."

Peace

"Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with."

Time

"In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else."

Victory