Flames

Famous quotes containing the word flames:

“Would martyrs have sung in the flames for a mere inference, however inevitable it might be?”
—William James (1842–1910)

“As flames do work and wind when they ascend,
So did I weave myself into the sense.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)