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Fire: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

He who, being bold For life to come, is false to the past sweet Of mortal life, hath killed the world above. For why to live again if not to meet? And why to meet if not to meet in love? And why in love if not in that dear love of old?— SYDNEY DOBELL — Sonnet. To a Friend

in Bereavement. But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.— GEORGE ELIOT — Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III.

Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak Not weak of soul.-I will but hold in sight, Thy marvelous beauty. Here is She you seek!— W. J. LINTON — Iphigenia at Aulis.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. V. L. 896.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.— POPE — Essay on Criticism. L. 336.

When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true.— CHARLES SEDLEY — Reasons for

Constancy. You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel.— Shakespeare — Midsummer Night's Dream. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 195.

To be true to each other, let 'appen what maäy Till the end o' the daäy An the last loäd hoäm.— TENNYSON — The Promise of May. Song. Act II.

To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.— VAUGHAN — Rules and Lessons. St. 8.

Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.— CHAUCER — Canterbury Tales. The Reves Prologue. L. 3,881.

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.— LATIMER — The Martyrdom. P. 523.

Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 77.

Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire— POPE — Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount, on

her leaving the Town after the Coronation. A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act IV. Sc. 8. L. 6.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.— Shakespeare — Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 30.

The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 22.

Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet. Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 18. 84.

Igne quid utilius? si quis tamen urere tecta Comparet audaces instruit igne manus. What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.— OVID — Tristium. II. 267.

Parva sæpe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium. A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.— QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS — De Rebus

Gestis Alexandri Magni. VI. 3.