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«Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.»
«Brad [Pitt], poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that's what I call a real star.»
«. . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.»
«Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?»
«All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.»
«For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: / But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.»
«Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women»
«Every burned book enlightens the world.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Books | Keywords: burned, enlightens
«Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side»
«Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.»

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