Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Gods anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Knowledge always desires increase it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, But which will afterwards propagate itself.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
His epitaph This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.
O fair and stately maid, whose eyes Were kindled in the upper skies At the same torch that lighted mine.
Often attitudes are kindled in the flame of others convictions.
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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