Source: White Oleander
“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
Variant: In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
Source: Parable of the Talents
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
“There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.”
Source: An Alarm to the Unconverted aka A Sure Guide to Heaven (first published 1671), P. 65.
“We must not burn down the house to kill the rats.”
Voicing opposition to the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950
Context: The whole notion of loyalty inquisitions is a national characteristic of the police state, not of democracy. The history of Soviet Russia is a modern example of this ancient practice. I must, in good conscience, protest against any unnecessary suppression of our rights as free men. We must not burn down the house to kill the rats.
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”
“If you want to be a flaming youth, you must have money to burn.”
Thomas Lansing Masson (1927) Tom Masson's Book of Wit & Humor. p. 1.
“With regard to lime we must be careful that it is burned from a stone which”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter V "Lime" Sec. 1
Context: With regard to lime we must be careful that it is burned from a stone which, whether soft or hard, is in any case white. Lime made of close-grained stone of the harder sort will be good in structural parts; lime of porous stone, in stucco. After slaking it, mix your mortar, if using pitsand, in the proportions of three parts of sand to one of lime; if using river or sea-sand, mix two parts of sand with one of lime. These will be the right proportions for the composition of the mixture. Further, in using river or sea-sand, the addition of a third part composed of burnt brick, pounded up and sifted, will make your mortar of a better composition to use.
“Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”
Variant: Those who don't build must burn.
Source: Fahrenheit 451
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Me & Rumi (2004)
“When zeal like incense burns, first the lamp of knowledge must be lighted.”
Heaven Taken By Storm
