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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
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Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just drowns you…
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Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear
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The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire
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The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to…
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We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
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The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from the passion…
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Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die…
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Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is…
— John Winthrop
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It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country…
— Samuel Adams
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Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear
— Francois La Rochefoucauld
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
— Ambrose Bierce
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[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
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Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so…
— Charles Carroll of Carrollton
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Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.
— Umar
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which…
— Joseph Addison
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