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All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood. -- Countee Cullen
The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes. -- Basil W. Maturin
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. -- Vincent Van Gogh
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. -- William Shakespeare
Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life? -- John Muir
Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. -- John Donne
The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. -- George Herbert
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire. -- Leymah Gbowee
...the sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self... -- Edgar Allan Poe
Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other. -- Bruce D. Perry
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives. -- Sharon Salzberg
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me. -- J. I. Packer
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it. -- Georges Bernanos
Whatever we attempt is a reflection of our inner thirst, which we hope to quench in all these external ways. What we are looking for lies within us, and if we gave out time and energy to an interior search, we would come across it much faster, since that is the only place where it is to be found. -- Ayya Khema
My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given them Your word' (John 17:14). In this book, I believe you will see that he has faithfully spoken God's Word that quenches the thirst of those seeking to draw from the wellsprings of Life. It is highly meaningful to see these statements now collected in one volume. -- Franklin Graham
Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way. -- Bae Doona
Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off. -- Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst. -- John James Audubon
Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it. -- Thomas Aquinas
Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin. -- George Herbert
Good words quench more then a bucket of water. -- George Herbert
I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity" -Luna Maxwell -- Ellen Schreiber
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Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. -- Marcus Aurelius
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. -- Walter Scott
His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal. -- Max Lucado
We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. -- Edward Young
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. -- Jeanette Winterson
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it. -- William Cowper
That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light. -- John Main
If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink. -- Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics. -- Joseph Silk
I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason. -- William Shakespeare
Don't quench the courageous spirit you begun with; you'll still need it when the going gets tough and all things seem impossible on your journey! -- Israelmore Ayivor
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength. -- Charles Spurgeon
Once you deliberately exterminate from your life those things that quench the fire of the Spirit, then He will reveal Himself again and the old flame and passion will be yours. -- Herbert Lockyer
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My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray. -- Anne Bradstreet
Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away -- Solomon
If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desiresâ?¦then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam. -- Charles Dickens
The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal. -- Ouida

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