Quotes with extinguishes

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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Comte DeBussy-Rabutin Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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  • William Penn Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Thomas Fuller A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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