#extinguish

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. ↗

— William Penn

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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ↗

— Roger de Rabutin

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Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

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In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

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As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence. ↗

— Edward Forbes

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By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana. ↗

— James Monroe

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