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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
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"I did mostly good things, except light things on fire."
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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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"Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much."
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"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."
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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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"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."
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"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
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"Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands."
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"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them."
God

"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."
Health

"I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth."
Government

"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."
Soul

"Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this."
Purpose

"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."
Fire

"Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie."
Humor

"I know that money speaks more loudly than need."
Money

"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."
Land

"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."
Responsibility
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