Extinguished Quotes
138 quotes by 126 authors
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By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th…
— Alfred Marshall
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If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without…
— Thomas Berry
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The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
— James Madison
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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
— Horace
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Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be…
— Carl Sagan
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.
— Sophia Lee
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio…
— Charles de Gaulle
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the…
— Olaf Stapledon
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Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence,…
— Joseph Addison
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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
— Luisa Sigea de Velasco
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Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.
— Hannah Arendt
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My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears…
— Gautama Buddha
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The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each…
— Marianne Moore
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The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
— Pierre Corneille
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As a result of the sacred ordinances performed in the holy house of God, no light need be permanently extinguished, no voice permanently stilled, no…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us…
— Ossie Davis
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