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Letter "O" » on fire
«Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.»
Author: Fred Shero
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Success
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After the Fire, combustion, fire, Fire I, fire up, firing, first, must, on fire, result, resulted, set, set about, spontaneous, spontaneous combustion, success, take fire, under fire
«The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.»
«The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.»
«Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?»
«Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men»
Author: Dante Alighieri
(Author, Poet)
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Pride
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avarice, Hearts of, on fire, set on, set on fire, sparks
«Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
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alarm, babe, Babes in, extricate, extricated, gradually, moderate, moderation, on fire, urge
«Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.»
«Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire? / And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.»
«The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Black Forest, blood-red, dark red, eastern, forest fire, frosty, marsh, marshes, on fire, red fire, set on, set on fire, shadowy, ships, sluggishly, substances, The Mast, veiled
«Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves»
Author: Italian Proverb
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on fire
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