Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are…

Distance is to love what wind is to fire, Extinguishes the small, but ignites the great.

— Anonymous

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire, it extinguishes the small, it ignites the great.”

— Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great

— Roger De Bussy-Rabutin

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

— Anonymous

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”

— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

— Anonymous

Distance is to love like wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small and kindles the great!

— Sahleenzkie

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 fire

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's…

— Ovid

Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.…

— Cesare Pavese

The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black…

— Mo Yan

I tohhugt finding this would be so arduous but it's a breeze!

— Deacon