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Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes


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Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
HANNAH MORE Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
UMBERTO ECO Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and f...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extin...
VICTOR HUGO Fire looks mean to some, but to me I see a perfect example of my love for you. My love is like fire ...
LARRY MICHAEL TERRY Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and t...
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KATE WOLFE But, like love, fire didn't last.
CASSANDRA CLARE Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire...
CONFUCIUS It quickens your hands up.
ANTHONY CLEMENS A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]
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SOTONYE ANGA To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
FRANCESCO PETRARCH To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
AGNES REPPLIER Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age
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the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
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JAY ASHER When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
YAHYA JAMMEH Love is friendship set on fire
JEREMY TAYLOR Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON When you eat a piece of white bread, think of it as putting a tissue on a fire. But if you eat somet...
JILLIAN MICHAELS 'Unconditional love' is like saying 'wet water'.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But that's what love is like when it's fresh and new. It's fire and thunder and heat.
CARRIE RYAN In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I'm a wannabe redhead, definitely wannabe Julianne Moore or Jessica Chastain redhead. But I love...
KARLA SOUZA Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissio...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Conversations flowed like the waters of a water-fall! And every time they met their conversations sp...
AVIJEET DAS When there's fire in the attic space, the only way you can get control of that fire is to remove the...
GREG HUNT People think bottled water is healthier and safer than tap, but in fact, bottled water is much less ...
DAN FAVRE A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
GERMAN PROVERB It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Just as war is more the absence of love than the presence of hate, and darkness is the absence of li...
UNKNOWN Love is the absence of judgment.
DALAI LAMA XIV Why is love intensified by absence?
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Absence is the enemy of love
PROVERB It started with a fire in the building. A helicopter started to sprinkle water to put out the fire. ...
ABDERRAHMANE GHOUL One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...
HANNAH MOORE We needed a tremendous amount of manpower to get the water and the hose up to extinguish the fire,
ROBERT SWEENEY The fire... destroyed two bedrooms and the heat and water. We're just thankful we were able to get o...
DIANNE JONES I tried to put it out with water bottles. There were no fire extinguishers on the stage. The worst p...
JACK RUSSELL It doesn't look that bad from the outside. But inside, the water damage is incredible. The fire depa...
KARL BUCH Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, a...
HERACLITUS In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
ELIJAH WOOD The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a lit...
DICK VAN DYKE The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON I suppose like others
I have come through fire and sword,
love gone wrong,
head-on cr...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We knew they had a couple players, both named Moore. Jennifer Hinton did a good job on Andrea Moore ...
REGGIE LEE Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a lit...
BIBLE Love is friendship set on fire. thanks to a subscriber -Jeremy Irons.
JEREMY IRONS A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
THOMAS FULLER We cannot see the universe. We are in the darkness of a trench, a deep cut, dark water heavier than ...
CHINA MIéVILLE She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden,...
STARRA NEELY BLADE I love everything. The way she strokes her earlobe when she's thinking. The way she chews her pen wh...
KIKI ARCHER Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
GEORGE HERBERT A temperate fire never boils the water.
ALVIN CONWAY St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees i...
BJARKE INGELS Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
MARK OVERBY Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices an...
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HANNAH ARENDT There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
HANNAH ARENDT The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition...
HANNAH ARENDT Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for ...
HANNAH ARENDT Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
HANNAH ARENDT Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get type...
HANNAH MURRAY Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
HANNAH MORE It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's...
HANNAH HARRINGTON Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem...
HANNAH MORE The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ...
HANNAH MORE The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than...
HANNAH MORE My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works ...
HANNAH MORE There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that...
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the health...
HANNAH MORE Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
HANNAH MORE Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
HANNAH MORE No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who...
HANNAH MORE Even though Graham and I went back to arguing and stealing socks and hiding each other's toothbrushe...
HANNAH MOSKOWITZ I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they be...
SOPHIE HANNAH Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them mov...
KRISTIN HANNAH He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And ...
HANNAH HARRINGTON Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it'...
DARYL HANNAH What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determ...
HANNAH ARENDT Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
HANNAH ARENDT How goodness heightens beauty!
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardo...
HANNAH ARENDT