"Man's goodness is a flame that can be……" — Nelson Mandela

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• Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. — Francis Bacon
• In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled… — Charles Kendall Adams
• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe… — Edmund Burke
• Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from… — Edmund Burke
• Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. — Emile M. Cioran
• Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh. — Aberjhani
• The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to… — Saint John Chrysostom
• Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise… — Viktor E. Frankl
• The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died… — Khalil Gibran
• When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and… — Michel de Montaigne
• But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in… — Michele Bachmann

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