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If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know – Steven Wright
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Kahlil Gibran
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. – Edwin Conklin
The word impossible is not in my dictionary. – Napoleon Bonaparte
A great flame follows a little spark. – Dante Alighieri
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
'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 that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it. – Miguel de Cervantes
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. – John Henry Cardinal Newman
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. – Hal Borland
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims) – La Rochefoucauld
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As one might nurse a tiny flame, The able and far-seeing man, E?en with the smallest capital, Can raise himself to wealth. – Buddhist
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes. – Bhagavad Gita
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. – Washington Irving
Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice. – Omar Khayyam
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire. – Thomas Paine
I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. – Virgil
If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know? – Steven Wright
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. – Napoleon
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. – Albert Schweitzer
In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned. – B. J. Gupta
It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. – Noah Webster
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. – Sir Thomas Browne

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