One kindly deed may turn
The fountain of thy soul
To love's sweet day-star,
That shall over thee burn
Long as its currents roll. [ Holmes ]
He'll turn rather than burn. [ Proverb ]
Give me the eloquent cheek,
When blushes burn and die,
Like thine its changes speak,
The spirit's purity. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
No longer blow no longer burn. [ Proverb ]
The rich man's son inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn. [ Lowell ]
Two kitchen fires burn not on one hearth. [ Proverb ]
Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish,
And in itself to ashes burn. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Forsaken ]
He will burn his house to warm his hands. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
They did not know how hate can burn
In hearts once changed from soft to stern;
Nor all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel. [ Byron ]
Her tears, like drops of molten lead,
With torment burn the passage to my heart. [ Young ]
Gain got by a lie will burn one's fingers. [ Proverb ]
And teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night. [ William Shakespeare ]
Bright-eyed fancy, hovering over.
Scatters from her pictured urn.
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. [ Gray ]
Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. [ Addison ]
The passions do not die out; they burn out. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
If my shirt knew my design, I would burn it. [ Proverb ]
Burn not your house to fright away the mice. [ Proverb ]
Burn and not smoulder, win by worth,
Not rest content with a wealth that's dearth! [ Robert Browning ]
Sleep, the fresh dew of languid love, the rain
Whose drops quench kisses till they burn again. [ Shelley ]
I had rather my cake burn than you should turn it. [ Proverb ]
Critics on verse, as squibs on triumphs wait.
Proclaim their glory, and augment the state;
Hot, envious, noisy, proud, the scribbling fry
Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. [ Young ]
If you have many irons in the fire, some will burn. [ Proverb ]
They that burn you for a witch lose all their coals. [ Proverb ]
Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes burn and die. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us. [ Proverb ]
That fire which lights us at a distance, will burn us when near. [ Proverb ]
You shall never beat the fly from the candle, though she burn for it. [ Proverb ]
It is as natural a thing for means to cure, as it is for fire to burn. [ Proverb ]
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders. [ William Shakespeare ]
In courting women, many dry wood for a fire that will not burn for them. [ Balzac ]
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. [ Landor ]
Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, old books to read. [ Alonzo of Arragon ]
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. [ Southey ]
The good die first; and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket. [ Wordsworth ]
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. [ Bacon ]
Still as the peaceful walks of ancient night; silent as are the lamps that burn on tombs. [ William Shakespeare ]
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 ]
If you would be pungent, be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. [ Saxe ]
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire, - not too near, lest he burn: nor too far off, lest he freeze. [ Diogenes ]
Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
One lamp, thy mother's love, amid the stars shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before the throne of God burn through eternity. [ N. P. Willis ]
True passion is not a wisp-light; it is a consuming flame, and either it must find fruition or it will burn the human heart to dust and ashes. [ William Winter ]
The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning. [ Carlyle ]
Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. [ Cervantes ]
The domestic man who loves no music so well as his own kitchen clock and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. [ Woodworth ]
The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal. [ Ouida ]
Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenhoeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer. [ Colton ]
Gold is called the bait of sin, the snare of souls, and the hook of death; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him altogether. [ Sir R. Filmer ]
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]
Liberty is the richest inheritance which man has received from the skies! When shall its sacred fire burn in every bosom, and kindling with the thrilling force of inspiration, spread from heart to heart and from mind to mind, and be the common privilege and birthright of every human being? [ Acton ]
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven. [ Daniel Webster ]