#chimney

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

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Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it. ↗

— Richard Morris Hunt

#best #build #chimney #down #following

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#certain #chimneys #constant #easier #ever

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#chimney #coming #down #history #i

I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: "If I sit down and do this, everything will come out OK. ↗

— Stephen King

#creating #desert #faith #house #idea

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. ↗

— John Burroughs

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Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#chimneys #high #houses #shape #tents

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#between #calm #chimney #commonest #corner

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life. ↗

— Stijn Streuvels

#chimneys #close #fast #gave #ground