Extinguishes Quotes

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Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes… — Alphonsus Liguori
Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna. By distributing the holy name… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion. — Gautama Buddha
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses… — Jonathan Mayhew
Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never… — Charles Dickens
Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations. — George Horne
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. — Hannah More
It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of… — Curt Sachs
Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound. — John Cage
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal… — Sathya Sai Baba
Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence… — E. O. Wilson
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur eÂ teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. — Honore de Balzac
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. — William Penn
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. — Helen Fisher
I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing!… — Henri Barbusse

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