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45 quotesBitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Anger
Maya Angelou
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Age and Aging
Francis Bacon
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Acting and Actors
Roland Barthes
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Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
Greatness
Napoleon Bonaparte
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Books - Reading
Ray Bradbury
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Books - Reading
Joseph Brodsky
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He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
World
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Action
Chinese Proverb
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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Conscience
Chinese Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Enemies
Chinese Proverb
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It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.
Vision
Stephen R. Covey
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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.
Love
Richard Crawshaw
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
Experience
English Proverb
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Hatred
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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What is to give light must endure the burning.
Adversity
Viktor E. Frankl
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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
Passion
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Action
Nick Gorski
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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
Censorship
Heinrich Heine
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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Power
Napoleon Hill
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Critics and Criticism
Lou Holtz
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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
Faith
Rufus M. Jones
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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
Censorship
D. H. Lawrence
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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
Death and Dying
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
Faces
Christopher Marlowe
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
Colleges and Universities
H. L. Mencken
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun