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Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
Words pregnant with celestial fire.
Words pregnant with celestial fire.
They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on
fire.
[Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum read more
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on
fire.
[Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.]
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.
Behold, how great a matter a little read more
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.
Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue
among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth
on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.
O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live.
O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live.
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]