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Burns
«When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(Actress, Producer)
| Keywords:
bright, Bright Eyes, Bright Future, Burns, look into, The future
«We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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burned down, Burns, burn down, call, department, departments, Department of, fire, fire department, house, live in, locked, locking, lock in, lock up, look out, No Way Out, on fire, the fire, trapped, trapping, upstairs, way out, window
«The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature /were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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be well, buries, Burns, consequence, consumes, drowns, elements, forbearance, inseparable, judgments, Laws of nature, No Mercy, The Elements, the laws of nature, unerring
«Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alone, broken, Burns, confining, destruction, drift, drifted, drifts, either, flame, flamed, force, held, In Flames, mid, or else, passion, rudder, ruling, rulings, sails, seas, sea a, standstill, toss, tosses, tossing, toss in, toss out, Toss Up, unattended
«To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.»
«Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
anguish, backward, burned-out, Burns, burnt-out, cures, desperate, giddy, infection, infections, languish, languished, languishes, languishing, lessen, rank
«This late dissension grown betwixt the peersBurns under feigned ashes of forged loveAnd will at last break out into a flame.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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ashes, betwixt, break out, Burns, dissension, feigned, feigning, forged, peering, peers