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Bernard Weisberger, America Afire · Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires ( early book) · Ezio Auditore da Firenze · Firesign Theatre · Harry Firestone · Harvey Firestone · J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire · Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven · S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947 · Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities" · William Safire

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. – Proverbs 627-9 Bible Hebrew
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. – Benjamin Disraeli
Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. – William Shakespeare
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. – William Butler Yeats
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes! – Abigail van Buren
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men. – Seneca
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. – George Washington
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. – George Washington
How can you bring more light to the ephemeras who are plunged into the fire, because they have already had the light of the fire then. – Woody Haldrugold
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. – Aesop
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. – Swedenborg
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. – William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.
Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. – P Barnum
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. – Buddha
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. – William Shakespeare
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. – J. B. Yeats
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. – Vincent Van Gogh
Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it. – Ashley Judd
Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across. – Rig Veda
Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. – Reggie Leach
Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. – Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning. – Sir Walter Raleigh

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