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There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh
Great
Fire
Our
See
Only
No-One
Himself
Smoke
Passers-By
Hearts
May
Warm
Ever
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh
Soul
Sit
Way
See
Only
No-One
Blazing
Smoke
Passers-By
Came
Continue
Hearth
May
Chimney
Ever
I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.
Thérèse of Lisieux
Myself
Me
Humble
Clouds
Become
Lost
Summit
Trodden
Between
Underfoot
Always
Passers-By
Saint
Saints
Mountain
Same
Difference
Grain
Wanted
Grain Of Sand
Unfortunately
Sand
Compared
Found
Whose
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love
Sit
Ourselves
Windows
Come
House
Crying
Passers-By
Us
Body
Many
Showing
You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?
Frank McCourt
You
People
Think
Say
About
Know
Look
Passers-By
Same
Rome
Here
Philadelphia
It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that you are fair game.
Mona Eltahawy
You
Game
Light
State
One Thing
Gives
Fair
Fair Game
Passers-By
Green
Green Light
Harassed
Thing
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.
Tom Hodgkinson
Day
Gardening
Rain
Wind
About
Could
Chatting
Vegetable
Instead
Supposed
Lean
Am
Passers-By
Beds
Lot
While
Ponder
Happily
Stare
Gate