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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
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A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
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A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
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