![[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.](/assets/img/quote-photos/hermes-addresses-prometheus-to-you-the-clever-and-crafty-bitter-beyond-all.jpg)
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clever nice heart
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you? Charles Bukowski
clever england fans special supported sure tickets ways
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clever truth editors
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clever war soldier
War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. Alberto Moravia
clever creativity people
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clever men cases
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned Duke of Wellington
clever humility pride
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fire water decision
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fire giving arms
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fire volunteer department
There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments. Bobby Scott
fire low moving watch
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fire people ashes
How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch. Dick Francis
fire black asbestos
Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.... Anne Sexton
fire lost tested
I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost. Ann Richards
fire burned
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fire cooking way
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The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.
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My honor is dearer to me than my life. Miguel de Cervantes
honored reward
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. Calvin Coolidge
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honor work
If they had anything in that arena, it would be an honor to work for this organization.
honor imagined thrilled wonderful
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honor life-is
Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered. Jim Harrison