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Letter "F" » flame
«When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over»
Author: Sappho
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Keywords:
all over,
at once,
bathed,
bathes,
beneath,
courses,
delicate,
ears,
falls,
flame,
hum,
humming,
Hums,
look on,
seizes,
skin,
sweat,
The Hum,
trembling,
wet,
wets,
wetted,
wetter,
wetting
«Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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About:
Love
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Keywords:
flame,
flies,
fourth,
gravely,
ice,
kills,
lightning,
runs,
sets,
third,
Tis,
walks,
wounds
«When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
burned,
Fire and Water,
flame,
kindle,
overflow,
overflowed,
overflowing with,
overflows,
rivers,
the fire,
The Flame,
waters
«When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.»
«Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be»
«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
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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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 help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
ADD,
blow,
coals,
defeat,
Divine,
firm,
flame,
inspire,
redeem,
redeems,
useful