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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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Personal Development
"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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Personal Development
"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
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"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"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?"
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"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."
Friendship
"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
Fire
"In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits."
Power
"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days."
Wisdom
"Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy."
Health
"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."
Thought
"Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom."
Authority
"Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history."
History
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