The Writings of Marguerite Bourgeoys, p. 204
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
“The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.”
Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort sous la cendre.
Rodogune, act III, scene iv.
Rodogune (1644)
“We cannot kindle when we will
The fire that in the heart resides”
"Morality" (1852), st. 1
Context: We cannot kindle when we will
The fire that in the heart resides,
The spirit bloweth and is still,
In mystery our soul abides; —
But tasks, in hours of insight willed,
Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled.
“Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies.”
Interlude, p. 75
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)
Context: Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
“It is hard to hate what one has loved,
And a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”
On a peine à haïr ce qu'on a bien aimé,
Et le feu mal éteint est bientôt rallumé.
Sertorius, act I, scene iii.
Sertorius (1662)
Biharul Anwar, Volume 82, Page 209
Shi'ite Hadith
“Does not, as fire dropped upon water is immediately extinguished and cooled, so, does not, I say, a false accusation, when brought in contact with a most pure and holy life, instantly fall and become extinguished?”
Nonne, ut ignis in aquam conjectus, continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, sic refervens falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam collatum, statim concidit et extinguitur?
Cicero, Pro Roscio Comodeo Oratio, 17; C.D. Yonge translation
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 9
