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• Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
  -- Hannah More...
• Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
• Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
  -- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)...
• Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
  -- Comte DeBussy-Rabuti...
• One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocea
  a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service....
• A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth - with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and the light extinguished.
  -- Frank P. Tebbe...
• In men this blunder still you find,-- All think their little set mankind.
  -- Hannah More (1745-1833) -- Florio, Part i...
• Wear me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm
  for love is strong as death, passion cruel as the grave...
• Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.