Famous quotes containing the words fully, automatic and/or fire:
“A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.”
—Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)
“As fire refines gold, so suffering refines virtue.”
—Chinese proverb.