The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning.
What is to give light must endure burning.