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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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Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die…
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them
— Francois La Rochefoucauld
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While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country…
— Joseph Hume
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
— Moliere
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