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• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. -- Walter S. Lando
• Lights not burning too bright.
• One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to mi
  But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain....
• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
  The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable....
• The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled
  The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead....
• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
  As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable....
• The light that burns twice as bright lasts half as long, and you have burned so very, very bright, Roy!
  -- Doctor Eldon Tyrell, in Ridley Scott's Blade Runne...