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Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great


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Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]
GEORGE HERBERT 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 It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
UMBERTO ECO I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO It is a lie.
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and y...
DUC DE LA ROUCHEFOUCAULD Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
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SUFJAN STEVENS It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
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STEVEN STRAIT I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. 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 I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
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GARY F EVANS... I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
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HANNAH MORE To stand on the
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DREW BREES Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
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ERIK GRIFFIN When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to unde...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
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E. W. HOWE If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
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There passes for a moment the fig...
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The philosophers say it’s the soul
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ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
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STANLEY DONEN We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Night doesn’t fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Be...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac...
ROBERT REDFORD It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
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RYAN SHECKLER PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
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CESARE PAVESE Mother Superior jump the gun...
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SUGAR RAY LEONARD She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p...
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