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«Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
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Poetry
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almost, draw, extinguish, extinguishes, extinguishing, inadvisable, meaning, perfect, poetry, understanding, usually
«Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.»
Author: Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
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Absence
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absence, enkindled, enkindles, extinguishes, extinguishing, Great Fire, wind
«Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes»
Author: Hannah Moore
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Absence,
Love
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extinguishes, Fire and Water, on fire, quickening, quickens, The Quickening
«Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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dawn, extinguishes, extinguishing, lamp, putting, putting to death, The Light
«Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Nature
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extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, hidden, overcome, seldom
«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.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| About:
Reading
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candle, extinguishes, extinguishing, mind reading, natural world, oppression, scholars, senseless, The Natural
«Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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endure, extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, history, ones, personalities, strong, The Histories, weak
«All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.»
«Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Day
| Keywords:
blowing, candle, extinguishes, extinguishing, flame, nirvana, The Flame
«A small demerit extinguishes a long service»
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