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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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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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Personal Development
"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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Personal Development
"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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"The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots."
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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
Art
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
Life
"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
Truth
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Age
"Order is power."
Power
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
Thought
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Life
"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
Fire
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
Quality
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
Talent
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