Famous quotes containing the words dagger, cannon and/or fire:
“The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“The cannon thunders ... limbs fly in all directions ... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice ... its Humanity in search of happiness.”
—Charles Baudelaire (18211867)
“For we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers, but children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted, and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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