Extinguish Quotes
67 Extinguish quotes by 61 unique authors
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it…
— Francis Bacon
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others,…
— Terry Waite
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No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.
— Wes Fesler
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What I set seems to never extinguish
— Drake
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with…
— Joseph Addison
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
— Francis of Assisi
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
— Samuel Johnson
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital…
— Ambrose
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Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
— George Orwell
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Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.
— Muhammad
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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled…
— Socrates
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People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful…
— Jeffery Deaver
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As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in…
— John Ashcroft
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We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
— Gaylord Nelson
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Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of…
— Raghuram Rajan
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God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die…
— Khalil Gibran
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Love isn't as simple as you wish it would be. On the other hand, it's nowhere near as complicated as you fear it is. My…
— Rob Brezsny
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Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain…
— Oswald Mosley
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Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Who Wrote These Extinguish Quotes
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