“ A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 492
“ same wind that extinguishes a can set a brazier on fire. ”
- Pierre Beaumarchais- Copy
- 4K
“ The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. ”
- Pierre Corneille- Copy
- 267
“ The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. ”
- Terry Waite- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 176
“ Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 4K
“ Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ”
- A. E. Housman- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
- 261
“ Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself. ”
- Edward O. Wilson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 993
“ Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 948
“ Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ The memory-haunted well,Whose waters quench a deeper thirst than thine,Changed at my lips to sacramental wine. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. ”
- Comte De Bussy Rabutin- Copy
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“ If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ”
- Comte De Bussy Rabutin- Copy
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“ Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. ”
- De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
- 2K
“ Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire. ”
- La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished. ”
- Frank Tebbets- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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