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«Genius is talent set on fire by courage»
Author: Henry Van Dyke
(Essayist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
on fire, set on, set on fire
«Love is friendship set on fire»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
on fire, set on, set on fire
«Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men»
Author: Dante Alighieri
(Author, Poet)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
avarice, Hearts of, on fire, set on, set on fire, sparks
«It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, an angel gets set on fire.»
«And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.»
«Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! / And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.»
«My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.»
«And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.»
«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
| Keywords:
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
«If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
Almighty, atmosphere, channels, on fire, rebuild, rebuilding, rebuilt, set on, set on fire, such that, the Almighty, To Fly
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