A Quote by Jean Jaures

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes. — © Jean Jaures
Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.
We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.
What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes.
People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...
Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.
My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.
As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.
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