Extinguished Quotes
138 quotes by 126 authors
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
— Francis Bacon
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In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's…
— Charles Kendall Adams
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
— Edmund Burke
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
— Edmund Burke
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.
— Aberjhani
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The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished
— Nelson Mandela
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The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach…
— Khalil Gibran
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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in…
— Michel de Montaigne
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But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. ... I…
— Michele Bachmann
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It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History…
— Felix Frankfurter
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All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
— Samuel Johnson
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The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic…
— Koji Nakanishi
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By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but…
— John Stuart Mill
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