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extinguishing

«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.»
«Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.»
«Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.»
«Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.»
«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.»
«Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it»
«The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.»
«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.»
«The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them»

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