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take fire

«Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.»
«Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?»
«Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.»
«Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire»
«And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: take fire, wheels
«And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.»
«Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? / Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? / So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: take fire
«Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.»
«Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds»
«All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire.»

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