#kindle

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. ↗

— John Fowles

#death

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#belief #community #corrupt #cynical #existence

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#carrier #cash #desire #eye #female

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#into #kindled #maiden #roses #thought

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ↗

— Plutarch

#filled #fire #kindled #mind #vessel

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#aim #aspires #everyone #his #impart

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred. ↗

— M. Kathleen Casey

#breasts #consistency #enduring #hatred #kindled

In the previous few minutes, I had seen the most beautiful thing that eyes can see: the glory of God shining in the radiance of creation. I had heard the most beautiful thing that ears can hear: friends telling friends that they love one another. And I had felt the most beautiful thing that any heart can ever feel: the love of God and the love of others. ↗

— Brian D. McLaren

#beauty

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ↗

— Washington Irving

#beams #blazes #broad #dark #daylight

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ↗

— Washington Irving

#beams #blazes #broad #dark #daylight