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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. -- Washington Irving
I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star. -- Jerry Reed
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas. -- Kevin J. Anderson
Christmas is a kindling of new fires. -- Gladys Taber
Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling. -- W. H. Auden
Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke. -- Edmund Spenser
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. -- Socrates
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. -- Walter M. Miller Jr.
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. -- Walter M. Miller Jr.
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. -- Gary D. Schmidt
The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness. -- Amit Ray
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart -- Hannah Szenes
Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy. -- Daisaku Ikeda
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. -- John Muir
In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full of life and circumstance. -- Samuel Rogers
And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith. -- Gerald Massey
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go. -- Siegfried Sassoon
... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go. The War Poems -- Siegfried Sassoon
Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling... -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out? -- John Godfrey Saxe
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth. -- Plutarch

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