C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Fire

From small fire comes oft no small mishap.

George Herbert.

From little spark may burst a mighty flame.

Dante.

Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all.

Shakespeare.

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

Herrick.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries fire.

Leigh Hunt.

Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth.

Bible.

The fire i’ the flint
Shows not till it be struck.

Shakespeare.

A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer’d, rivers cannot quench.

Shakespeare.

And where two raging fires meet together
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

Shakespeare.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor’s house is on fire.

Horace.

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.

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

J. Latimer.

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