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• Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
  -- Comte DeBussy-Rabuti...
• Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
  -- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)...
• Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
  -- Hannah More...
• Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
  -- La Rochefoucald...
• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
• We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa
• He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
  -- John Ruski...