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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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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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"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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"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."
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"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."
Fate
"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own."
Man
"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
Chance
"Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large."
Man
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
Adversity
"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
Glory
"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."
Enemy
"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."
Leadership
"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
Fear
"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
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