A Quote by Francis Bacon

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Francis Bacon

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Clay Fire Grows Hard Same Wax

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Antoine Rivarol

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

Bill Vaughan

The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay.

Billy Graham

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

Adam Clarke

Every day my love for you grows higher, deeper, wider, stronger... It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are and comes back to me in the loving memory of you, and my heart melts with that love and grows even more.

Maureen Hunter

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

Ivan Panin

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

E. O. Wilson

Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

Vance Havner

I think it's fun to play on hard courts, you know. I think it's a surface that also can suit my game even though this year has been mainly clay, clay, clay all the year.

Casper Ruud

No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's a disguise. It's just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts. They still would like to jump and play, but that heavy clay won't let them.

Robert R. McCammon

This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.

Omar Khayyam

I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same ball of wax. With acting, you are the same person in a different form. You can only be what you know, and you only truly know yourself.

Emmy Rossum

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

Florence Earle Coates

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

Alan Cohen

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

Jack Hyles

Sex is of the same clay as Time! -- of the same clay Since both are in their essence but One-Way Time is the one-way dimension: sex its tart And subtle biological counterpart.

Wyndham Lewis

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