“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
“Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.”
First Epistle to J. Lapraik, st. 13 (1786)
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Scottish poet and lyricist 1759–1796Related quotes
“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.”
Source: Pygmalion & My Fair Lady
“It'll start with a spark, and a great fire will grow.”
California's Dark.
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Ode http://www.potw.org/archive/potw369.html, st. 1
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
"Spark" https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=tDGSgZQPscY#t=40 (12 May 2013)
2010s, West Coast Time
“There goes the parson, O illustrious spark!
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.”
On observing some Names of Little Note.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)