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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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Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
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Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and…
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